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title: מַסַּד — foundation · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַסַּד (4527), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: foundation. BDB 1906: foundation. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַסַּד

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«מַסַּד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **foundation** — 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:** 4527 · **BDB:** מַסַּד

### Glosses

foundation (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

foundation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4527/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

foundation [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4527/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] foundation;—מִמַּסַּד (סָּ K3) 1 K 7:9 ‖ עַד־הַטְּפָחוֹת; Co reads מַסַּד also Ez 41:8 (for MT מיּ֯סְדוֹת).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַסַּד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4527/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 7:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.9/)

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כָּל־אֵ֜לֶּה אֲבָנִ֤ים יְקָרֹת֙ כְּמִדֹּ֣ת גָּזִ֔ית מְגֹרָר֥וֹת בַּמְּגֵרָ֖ה מִבַּ֣יִת וּמִח֑וּץ וּמִמַּסָּד֙ עַד־הַטְּפָח֔וֹת וּמִח֖וּץ עַד־הֶחָצֵ֥ר הַגְּדוֹלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* all these \[were\].stones costly according to.measurements of.hewn.\[stone\] sawn with (the) saw from inside and from outside and from.\[the\] foundation to the.coping stone and from.\[the\] outside to the court (the) great

*JPS 1917:* All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto the great court.

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