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title: מִכְלֹות — food-stuff · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִכְלֹות (4357), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: food-stuff. BDB 1906: completenes, perfection. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִכְלֹות

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«מִכְלֹות» in the Tanakh dictionary: **food-stuff** — 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:** 4357 · **BDB:** מִכְלָה²

### Glosses

\[was\].perfection(s) (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

food-stuff [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4357/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

completenes, perfection [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4357/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[f.\] completenes, perfection;—only pl. cstr. intens. מִכְלוֹת זָהָב 2 Ch 4:21 perfections of gold = purest gold.—i. מִכְלָה v. sub כלא.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִכְלֹות» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4357/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 4:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.4.21/)

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וְהַפֶּ֧רַח וְהַנֵּר֛וֹת וְהַמֶּלְקַחַ֖יִם זָהָ֑ב ה֖וּא מִכְל֥וֹת זָהָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and the blossom and the lamps and the tongs gold it \[was\].perfection(s) of.gold

*JPS 1917:* and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold;

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