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title: מִלֻּאִים — setting · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִלֻּאִים (4394), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 15 times: setting. BDB 1906: n.m. setting, installation Pi. Pu.). With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִלֻּאִים

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«מִלֻּאִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **setting** — 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:** 15 times · **Key:** 4394 · **BDB:** מִלּוּא

### Glosses

installation.offering(s) (6); of.setting(s) (2); \[were\].installation.offerings (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

setting [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4394/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. setting, installation Pi. Pu.) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4394/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. setting, installation; (cf. vb. Pi. Pu.);—pl. מִלֻּאִים (מִלּוּ׳) Ex 25:7 + 13 times; מִלֻּאֵיכֶם Lv 8:33;— setting, אַבְנֵי מ׳ stones for setting Ex 25:7; 35:9, 27 cf. 1 Ch 29:2 (אַבְנֵי שֹׁ֫הַם וּמ׳). installation (of priests): Lv 7:37; 8:33; = installation-offering 8:28 (‖ אִשָּׁה) cf. סַל־הַמּ׳ v 31; אֵיל הַמּ׳ Ex 29:22, 26, 27, 3 Lv 8:22, 29; בְּשַׂר הַמ׳ Ex 29:34.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִלֻּאִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4394/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 25:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.7/)

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אַבְנֵי־שֹׁ֕הַם וְאַבְנֵ֖י מִלֻּאִ֑ים לָאֵפֹ֖ד וְלַחֹֽשֶׁן׃

*Word for word:* stones of.onyx and stones of.setting(s) for the ephod and for the breastpiece

*JPS 1917:* onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

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[Exodus 35:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.9/)

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וְאַ֨בְנֵי־שֹׁ֔הַם וְאַבְנֵ֖י מִלֻּאִ֑ים לָאֵפ֖וֹד וְלַחֹֽשֶׁן׃

*Word for word:* and stones of.onyx and stones of.setting(s) for the ephod and for the breastpiece

*JPS 1917:* and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

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