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title: מִכְנָס — drawers · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִכְנָס (4370), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: drawers. BDB 1906: n.m. drawers. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִכְנָס

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«מִכְנָס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **drawers** — 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 4370 · **BDB:** מִכְנָס

### Glosses

undergarments (4); the.undergarments (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

drawers [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4370/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. drawers [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4370/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 44:18 only du. (or pl.) drawers (connex. with above √ כנס obscure; Di der. from כנס = גנז cover up, hide (cf. Du Is 28:20), which Thes also comp.)—only cstr. מִכְנְסֵי;—a priestly garment of linen מִכְנְסֵי פִשְׁתִּים Ez 44:18; מִכְנְסֵי (הַ)בָּד Ex 28:42; 39:28 Lv 6:3; 16:4 (all P).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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 «מִכְנָס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4370/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 28:42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.28.42/)

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וַעֲשֵׂ֤ה לָהֶם֙ מִכְנְסֵי־בָ֔ד לְכַסּ֖וֹת בְּשַׂ֣ר עֶרְוָ֑ה מִמָּתְנַ֥יִם וְעַד־יְרֵכַ֖יִם יִהְיֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and make for them undergarments of.linen to cover \[the\].flesh of.nakedness from.\[the\] hips and to \[the\].thighs they.will.be

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach.

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[Exodus 39:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.39.28/)

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וְאֵת֙ הַמִּצְנֶ֣פֶת שֵׁ֔שׁ וְאֶת־פַּאֲרֵ֥י הַמִּגְבָּעֹ֖ת שֵׁ֑שׁ וְאֶת־מִכְנְסֵ֥י הַבָּ֖ד שֵׁ֥שׁ מָשְׁזָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the turban fine.linen and (et) the.head-wraps of the.headdresses fine.linen and (et) the.undergarments of.(the) linen fine.linen twisted

*JPS 1917:* and the mitre of fine linen, and the goodly head-tires of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,

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