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title: כֹּתֶל — wall · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כֹּתֶל (3796), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: wall. BDB 1906: wall. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כֹּתֶל

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«כֹּתֶל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **wall** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3796 · **BDB:** כֹּ֫תֶל

### Glosses

wall (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

wall [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3796/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

wall [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3796/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] wall of house (NH כּוֹתֶל, Aramaic כּוֹתְלָא);—only sf. כָּתְלֵנוּ Ct 2:9.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כֹּתֶל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3796/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 2:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.9/)

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דּוֹמֶ֤ה דוֹדִי֙ לִצְבִ֔י א֖וֹ לְעֹ֣פֶר הָֽאַיָּלִ֑ים הִנֵּה־זֶ֤ה עוֹמֵד֙ אַחַ֣ר כָּתְלֵ֔נוּ מַשְׁגִּ֙יחַ֙ מִן־הַֽחֲלֹּנ֔וֹת מֵצִ֖יץ מִן־הַֽחֲרַכִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].like lover my (to).a gazelle or (to \[the\].fawn of the.deer(s) there! this \[he.is\].standing behind wall our \[he.is\].gazing from the windows \[he.is\].peering from the lattices

*JPS 1917:* My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart; behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh in through the windows, he peereth through the lattice.

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