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title: לוּל — shaft · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לוּל (3883), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: shaft. BDB 1906: shaft enclosed space with steps or ladder. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לוּל

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«לוּל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **shaft** — 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:** 3883 · **BDB:** לוּל

### Glosses

stairs (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

shaft [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3883/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

shaft enclosed space with steps or ladder [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3883/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] shaft or enclosed space (poss. in wall), with steps or ladder, only pl. לוּלִים 1 K 6:8 (וּבְלוּלִים יַעֲלוּ), on meaning v. StaZAW iii, 1883, 136 ff. \> 𝔊𝔙 winding-stair, cf. Buhl, v. Stal.c. (NH לוּל winding passage or stair, or enclosed space in which is a winding stair, according to LevyNHW ii. 486, but v. Stal.c.. √ dubious; hardly לולו infr.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לוּל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3883/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 6:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.8/)

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פֶּ֗תַח הַצֵּלָע֙ הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה אֶל־כֶּ֥תֶף הַבַּ֖יִת הַיְמָנִ֑ית וּבְלוּלִּ֗ים יַֽעֲלוּ֙ עַל־הַתִּ֣יכֹנָ֔ה וּמִן־הַתִּֽיכֹנָ֖ה אֶל־הַשְּׁלִשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* the.entrance of the.side-chamber (the) middle \[was\].to the.side of the.house (the) right and by stairs people.went.up to the.middle \[chamber\] and from the.middle \[chamber\] to the thirty

*JPS 1917:* The door for the lowest row of chambers was in the right side of the house and they went up by winding stairs into the middle row, and out of the middle into the third.

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