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title: מַסְמֵר — nail · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַסְמֵר (4548), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: nail. BDB 1906: n.m. nail. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַסְמֵר

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«מַסְמֵר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **nail** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 4548 · **BDB:** מַסְמֵר²

### Glosses

nails (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

nail [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4548/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. nail [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4548/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ec 12:11 nail (connexion with above √ dub.; 𝔗 מַסְמְרָא, Chr.Pal.Aramaic ܡܣܡܖ̈ܝܐ Schwally 63.122; NH vb. סמר nail on or up; Arabic مِسْمَارٌ is perhaps loan-word Frä 89);—pl. abs. מַסְמְרִים Is 41:7, מִסְמְרִים 1 Ch 22:3 (of iron; on—ִ v. Ges§ 85 f.); also מַסְמְרוֹת Je 10:4 (+ מַקָּבוֹת), מַשְׂמְרוֹת נְטוּעִים, Ec 12:11 (sim.; + דָּרְבֹנוֹת), and מִסְמְרוֹת 2 Ch 3:9 (of gold).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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 «מַסְמֵר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4548/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 3:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.9/)

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וּמִשְׁקָ֛ל לְמִסְמְר֥וֹת לִשְׁקָלִ֖ים חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים זָהָ֑ב וְהָעֲלִיּ֖וֹת חִפָּ֥ה זָהָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] weight of nails to shekels fifty gold and the.upper rooms he.overlaid gold

*JPS 1917:* And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

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[Jeremiah 10:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.4/)

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בְּכֶ֥סֶף וּבְזָהָ֖ב יְיַפֵּ֑הוּ בְּמַסְמְר֧וֹת וּבְמַקָּב֛וֹת יְחַזְּק֖וּם וְל֥וֹא יָפִֽיק׃

*Word for word:* with silver and with gold he beautifies.it with nails and with hammers they make.them.strong and not it.will.stagger

*JPS 1917:* They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

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