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title: מִגְרָעֹות — recess · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִגְרָעֹות (4052), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: recess. BDB 1906: n.f. recess, rebatement ledge. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִגְרָעֹות

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«מִגְרָעֹות» in the Tanakh dictionary: **recess** — 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:** 4052 · **BDB:** מִגְרָעָה

### Glosses

ledges (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

recess [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4052/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. recess, rebatement ledge [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4052/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. recess, rebatement (RV), i.e. ledge, only pl., נָתַן מִגְרָעוֹת לבית 1 K 6:6.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 «מִגְרָעֹות» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4052/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 6:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.6/)

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הַיָּצִ֨יעַ הַתַּחְתֹּנָ֜ה חָמֵ֧שׁ בָּאַמָּ֣ה רָחְבָּ֗הּ וְהַתִּֽיכֹנָה֙ שֵׁ֤שׁ בָּֽאַמָּה֙ רָחְבָּ֔הּ וְהַ֨שְּׁלִישִׁ֔ית שֶׁ֥בַע בָּאַמָּ֖ה רָחְבָּ֑הּ כִּ֡י מִגְרָעוֹת֩ נָתַ֨ן לַבַּ֤יִת סָבִיב֙ ח֔וּצָה לְבִלְתִּ֖י אֲחֹ֥ז בְּקִֽירוֹת־הַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* the extension (the) lower \[was\].five by the cubit breadth its and the.middle \[extension\] \[was\].six by the cubit breadth its and.(the) third \[extension\] \[was\].seven by the cubit breadth its (dm) ledges he.made for the house around the.outside to to not to.have.hold in the.walls of the.house

*JPS 1917:* the nethermost story of the side-structure was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made rebatements in the wall of the house round about, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house. —

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