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title: מִקְצֹועַ — place of corner-structure · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִקְצֹועַ (4740), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: place of corner-structure. BDB 1906: n.m. place of corner-structure corner-buttress Pu. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִקְצֹועַ

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«מִקְצֹועַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **place of corner-structure** — 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:** 12 times · **Key:** 4740 · **BDB:** מִקְצֹעַ

### Glosses

buttress (5); corners (3); the.corner (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

place of corner-structure [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4740/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. place of corner-structure corner-buttress Pu. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4740/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 46:21 place of corner-structure, (inner) corner-buttress (as (place of) cutting off of an inner angle if √ rightly expl.; v. RSl.c. 71–81);—abs. מ׳ Ne 3:19 +, צוֹעַ- Ne 3:20 +; cstr. -צֹעַ Ez 46:21(×2); pl. abs. מִקְצֹעֹת Ex 26:24; 36:29, cstr. -עוֹת Ez 46:22, מִקְצוֹעֵי v 21, also מְקֻצְעֹת Ex 26:23; 36:28 Di (not Pu. Pt. from קָצַע Thes Buhl Lex 13 al.), but read prob. מִקְצֹעֹת, so SS Baen; sf. מִקְצֹעוֹתָיו Ez 41:22;—corner-post of altar Ez 41:22, tabern. Ex 26:23, 24 = 36:28, 29; (inner) buttress-place of court, where the small corner-courts were, Ez 46:21(×3), 22; of inner (rock-?) buttress at NE. corner of wall of Jerus., הַמּ׳, nearly = n.pr., Ne 3:19, 20, 25, also (disting. from פִּנָּה) v 24 2 Ch 26:9.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִקְצֹועַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4740/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 3:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.24/)

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אַחֲרָ֣יו הֶחֱזִ֗יק בִּנּ֛וּי בֶּן־חֵנָדָ֖ד מִדָּ֣ה שֵׁנִ֑ית מִבֵּ֣ית עֲזַרְיָ֔ה עַד־הַמִּקְצ֖וֹעַ וְעַד־הַפִּנָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* after him he.repaired Binnui the.son of.Henadad a.measured.portion second from the.house of.Azariah to the buttress and to the corner

*JPS 1917:* After him repaired Binnui the son of Henadad another portion, from the house of Azariah unto the Turning and unto the corner.

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[Ezekiel 46:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.46.22/)

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בְּאַרְבַּ֜עַת מִקְצֹע֤וֹת הֶֽחָצֵר֙ חֲצֵר֣וֹת קְטֻר֔וֹת אַרְבָּעִ֣ים אֹ֔רֶךְ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים רֹ֑חַב מִדָּ֣ה אַחַ֔ת לְאַרְבַּעְתָּ֖ם מְׄהֻׄקְׄצָׄעֽׄוֹׄתׄ׃

*Word for word:* \[were\].in the.four the.corners of the.courtyard courtyards enclosed \[was\].forty.\[cubits\] \[the\].length and.\[was\] thirty.\[cubits\] \[the\].breadth measurement one \[belonged\].to the.four of.them set.in.corners

*JPS 1917:* In the four corners of the court there were courts inclosed, forty cubits long and thirty broad; these four in the corners were of one measure.

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