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title: אֶקְדָּח — fiery glow · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֶקְדָּח (688), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: fiery glow. BDB 1906: fiery glow, sparkle. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֶקְדָּח

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«אֶקְדָּח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fiery glow** — 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:** 688 · **BDB:** אֶקְדָּח

### Glosses

of.beryl (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fiery glow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/688/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

fiery glow, sparkle [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/688/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] perhaps fiery glow, sparkle; אַבְנֵי אֶקְדָּ֑ח Is 54:12 i.e. carbuncles (?);—𝔊 λίθους κρυστάλλου, 𝔙 lapides sculptos, Aq Theod Sym.

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֶקְדָּח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/688/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 54:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.54.12/)

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וְשַׂמְתִּ֤י כַּֽדְכֹד֙ שִׁמְשֹׁתַ֔יִךְ וּשְׁעָרַ֖יִךְ לְאַבְנֵ֣י אֶקְדָּ֑ח וְכָל־גְּבוּלֵ֖ךְ לְאַבְנֵי־חֵֽפֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.make ruby battlements your and gates your (to) stones of.beryl and all border your (to) stones of.delight

*JPS 1917:* And I will make thy pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy border of precious stones.

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