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title: מַחֲלָף — knife · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַחֲלָף (4252), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: knife. BDB 1906: n.m. knife. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַחֲלָף

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«מַחֲלָף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **knife** — 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:** 4252 · **BDB:** מַחֲלָף

### Glosses

knives (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

knife [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4252/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. knife [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4252/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. knife, so 𝔙 (cf. Syriac ܚܠܰܦ, totondit (in Lex.), ܚܠܳܦܳܐ, ܚܠܘܽܦܬܳܐ knife, Talm. חליפות knives, according to Levy, Jastr; Thes as passing through (cf. vb. 3 a)); but √ and meaning not certain, only Pl. מַחֲלָפִים Ezr 1:9, among temple utensils (v. BeRy Ryle).

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: 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 «מַחֲלָף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4252/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 1:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.1.9/)

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וְאֵ֖לֶּה מִסְפָּרָ֑ם אֲגַרְטְלֵ֨י זָהָ֜ב שְׁלֹשִׁ֗ים אֲגַרְטְלֵי־כֶ֙סֶף֙ אָ֔לֶף מַחֲלָפִ֖ים תִּשְׁעָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and these number \[were\].their basins of.gold thirty basins of.silver one.thousand knives nine and twenty

*JPS 1917:* And this is the number of them: thirty basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, nine and twenty knives;

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