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title: מֶרְכָּב — chariot · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מֶרְכָּב (4817), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: chariot. BDB 1906: n.m. chariot, riding-seat. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מֶרְכָּב

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«מֶרְכָּב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **chariot** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 4817 · **BDB:** מֶרְכָּב²

### Glosses

chariotry (1); saddle (1); seat (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

chariot [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4817/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. chariot, riding-seat [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4817/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 15, 9 chariot, riding-seat (proposes riding-place);— chariot (= foll.), sf. סוּסִים לְמֶרְכָּבוֹ 1 K 5:6. abs. מ׳, prob. saddle Lv 15:9 (P). מֶרְכָּבוֹ seat of litter Ct 3:10.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 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 «מֶרְכָּב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4817/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 15:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.15.9/)

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וְכָל־הַמֶּרְכָּ֗ב אֲשֶׁ֨ר יִרְכַּ֥ב עָלָ֛יו הַזָּ֖ב יִטְמָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and every (the) saddle which he.will.ride on it the.\[one\] discharging it.will.be.unclean

*JPS 1917:* And what saddle soever he that hath the issue rideth upon shall be unclean.

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[1 Kings 5:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.6/)

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וַיְהִ֣י לִשְׁלֹמֹ֗ה אַרְבָּעִ֥ים אֶ֛לֶף אֻרְוֺ֥ת סוּסִ֖ים לְמֶרְכָּב֑וֹ וּשְׁנֵים־עָשָׂ֥ר אֶ֖לֶף פָּרָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and it.belonged to Solomon forty thousand stalls of.horses for chariotry his and two.plus ten thousand horsemen

*JPS 1917:* And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

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