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title: מִקְשָׁה — hammered work · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִקְשָׁה (4749), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: hammered work. BDB 1906: n.f. hammered work. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִקְשָׁה

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«מִקְשָׁה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hammered work** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 4749 · **BDB:** מִקְשָׁה⁴

### Glosses

hammered.work (6); \[was\].hammered.work (2); \[will.be\].hammered.work (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hammered work [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4749/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. hammered work [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4749/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. perhaps hammered work, only of metals (orig. turner’s work?);—abs. מ׳, of cherubim in tabern. Ex 25:18; 37:7, lamp-stand 25:31, 36; 37:17, 22 Nu 8:4(×2), clarions 10:2.—i. מ׳ v. קשׁא.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִקְשָׁה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4749/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 25:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.18/)

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וְעָשִׂ֛יתָ שְׁנַ֥יִם כְּרֻבִ֖ים זָהָ֑ב מִקְשָׁה֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה אֹתָ֔ם מִשְּׁנֵ֖י קְצ֥וֹת הַכַּפֹּֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make two cherubim gold hammered.work you.will.make them from the.two the.ends of the.atonement.cover

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the ark-cover.

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[Exodus 25:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.36/)

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כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶ֥ם וּקְנֹתָ֖ם מִמֶּ֣נָּה יִהְי֑וּ כֻּלָּ֛הּ מִקְשָׁ֥ה אַחַ֖ת זָהָ֥ב טָהֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* bulbs their and branches their from it they.will.be of.it all \[will.be\].hammered.work one gold pure

*JPS 1917:* Their knops and their branches shall be of one piece with it; the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.

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