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title: צֶפֶת — plated capital · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צֶפֶת (6858), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: plated capital. BDB 1906: n.f. plated capital. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צֶפֶת

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«צֶפֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **plated capital** — 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:** 6858 · **BDB:** צֶ֫פֶת

### Glosses

capital (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

plated capital [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6858/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. plated capital [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6858/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. appar. plated capital of pillar 2 Ch 3:15.

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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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «צֶפֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6858/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Chronicles 3:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.3.15/)

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וַיַּ֜עַשׂ לִפְנֵ֤י הַבַּ֙יִת֙ עַמּוּדִ֣ים שְׁנַ֔יִם אַמּ֕וֹת שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים וְחָמֵ֖שׁ אֹ֑רֶךְ וְהַצֶּ֥פֶת אֲשֶׁר־עַל־רֹאשׁ֖וֹ אַמּ֥וֹת חָמֵֽשׁ׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.made before the house pillars two cubits thirty and five length and the capital which \[was\].on top its \[was\].cubits five

*JPS 1917:* Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

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