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title: נֶקֶב — bezel · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נֶקֶב (5345), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: bezel. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נֶקֶב

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«נֶקֶב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bezel** — 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:** 5345 · **BDB:** נֶ֫קֶב

### Glosses

settings (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bezel [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5345/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] term. techn. of jeweller’s work, prob. some hole or cavity (Hi-Sm Co Berthol; ToyHpt leaves untransl.),—only pl. sf. תֻּפֶּיךָ וּנְקָבֶיךָ Ez 28:13 thy sockets and thy grooves (Da), or thy settings and thy sockets.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נֶקֶב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5345/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 28:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.28.13/)

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בְּעֵ֨דֶן גַּן־אֱלֹהִ֜ים הָיִ֗יתָ כָּל־אֶ֨בֶן יְקָרָ֤ה מְסֻכָתֶ֙ךָ֙ אֹ֣דֶם פִּטְדָ֞ה וְיָהֲלֹ֗ם תַּרְשִׁ֥ישׁ שֹׁ֙הַם֙ וְיָ֣שְׁפֵ֔ה סַפִּ֣יר נֹ֔פֶךְ וּבָרְקַ֖ת וְזָהָ֑ב מְלֶ֨אכֶת תֻּפֶּ֤יךָ וּנְקָבֶ֙יךָ֙ בָּ֔ךְ בְּי֥וֹם הִבָּרַאֲךָ֖ כּוֹנָֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* in Eden the.garden of.God you.were \[was\].every stone precious covering your ruby topaz and emerald chrysolite onyx and jasper sapphire turquoise and beryl and gold the.workmanship your.tambourines your and settings your on you on the.day you were.created they.were.prepared

*JPS 1917:* thou wast in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the carnelian, the topaz, and the emerald, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle, and the smaragd, and gold; the workmanship of thy settings and of thy sockets was in thee, in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.

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