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title: אַפִּרְיוֹן — sedan · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַפִּרְיוֹן (668), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: sedan. BDB 1906: sedan, litter, palanquin. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַפִּרְיוֹן

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«אַפִּרְיוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sedan** — 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:** 668 · **BDB:** אַפִּרְיוֹן

### Glosses

a.litter (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

sedan [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/668/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

sedan, litter, palanquin [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/668/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] sedan, litter, palanquin (so NH; origin dub.; no plausible Shemitic etymol.; perhaps (so RS in YuleGloss. of Anglo-Indian Words, 502) Skr. paryaṅka, litter-bed, ‘palankeen;’ perhaps (if poem be late) Gr. φορεῖον;—𝔊 has φορεῖον, 𝔙 ferculum, Syriac ܦܽܘܪܝܳܐ (and ܦܽܘܪܝܳܐ) PS3073; Sota 9:14 and Talm אַפִּרְיוֹן, Talm also פּוֹרְיָא and פּוֹרְיוֹן, LevyNHWB i. 150, iv. 17.) Ct 3:9 א׳ עָשָׂה לוֹ הַמֶּלֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹה.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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 «אַפִּרְיוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/668/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 3:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.3.9/)

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אַפִּרְי֗וֹן עָ֤שָׂה לוֹ֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה מֵעֲצֵ֖י הַלְּבָנֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* a.litter he.has.made for himself the king Solomon from.(the) wood(s) of.(the) Lebanon

*JPS 1917:* King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of Lebanon.

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