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title: לֻלָאֹת — loop · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לֻלָאֹת (3924), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: loop. BDB 1906: n.f. loop. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לֻלָאֹת

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«לֻלָאֹת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **loop** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 13 times · **Key:** 3924 · **BDB:** לוּלַי

### Glosses

loops (13)

### Meaning (OSHB)

loop [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3924/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. loop [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3924/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. loop (probably from לולו; cf. \[דוּדַי\] p. 188 supra; ZehnpfBAS i. 635, comp. Assyrian lu-lu, ‘Schleife’);—only pl. abs. לֻֽלָאֹת Ex 26:5(×3) + 8 times, cstr. לֻלְאֹת Ex 26:4; 36:11;—loops on edges of curtains of tabernacle, matching the hooks (קְרָסִים), for joining the curtains: Ex 26:4, 5(×3), 10(×2), 11; 36:11, 12(×3), 17(×2) (all P).

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לֻלָאֹת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3924/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 26:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.11/)

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וְעָשִׂ֛יתָ קַרְסֵ֥י נְחֹ֖שֶׁת חֲמִשִּׁ֑ים וְהֵבֵאתָ֤ אֶת־הַקְּרָסִים֙ בַּלֻּ֣לָאֹ֔ת וְחִבַּרְתָּ֥ אֶת־הָאֹ֖הֶל וְהָיָ֥ה אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make hooks of.bronze fifty and you.will.put (et) the hooks in the loops and you.will.join.together (et) the tent and it.will.be one

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

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[Exodus 36:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.17/)

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וַיַּ֜עַשׂ לֻֽלָאֹ֣ת חֲמִשִּׁ֗ים עַ֚ל שְׂפַ֣ת הַיְרִיעָ֔ה הַקִּיצֹנָ֖ה בַּמַּחְבָּ֑רֶת וַחֲמִשִּׁ֣ים לֻלָאֹ֗ת עָשָׂה֙ עַל־שְׂפַ֣ת הַיְרִיעָ֔ה הַחֹבֶ֖רֶת הַשֵּׁנִֽית׃

*Word for word:* and he.made loops fifty on the.edge of the.curtain (the) outermost in the.joined set and fifty loops he.made on the.edge of the.curtain the.joined set (the) second

*JPS 1917:* And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was outmost in the first set, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which was outmost in the second set.

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