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title: קְלֹקֵל — contemptible · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קְלֹקֵל (7052), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: contemptible. BDB 1906: adj. contemptible, worthless. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קְלֹקֵל

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«קְלֹקֵל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **contemptible** — 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:** 7052 · **BDB:** קְלֹקֵל

### Glosses

worthless (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

contemptible [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7052/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. contemptible, worthless [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7052/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. contemptible, worthless ( cf. Ol§ 189 f BaNB 160);—בַּלֶּחֶם הַקּ׳ Nu 21:5 (JE).

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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 (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 «קְלֹקֵל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7052/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 21:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.5/)

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וַיְדַבֵּ֣ר הָעָ֗ם בֵּֽאלֹהִים֮ וּבְמֹשֶׁה֒ לָמָ֤ה הֶֽעֱלִיתֻ֙נוּ֙ מִמִּצְרַ֔יִם לָמ֖וּת בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין לֶ֙חֶם֙ וְאֵ֣ין מַ֔יִם וְנַפְשֵׁ֣נוּ קָ֔צָה בַּלֶּ֖חֶם הַקְּלֹקֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and it.spoke the people against God and against Moses why? have you.brought.us.up from Egypt to die in the wilderness (dm) there.\[is\].not food and there.\[is\].not water and self our it.loathes (in) the food (the) worthless

*JPS 1917:* And the people spoke against God, and against Moses: 'Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.'

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