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title: קִלְּשׁוֹן — fine point · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קִלְּשׁוֹן (7053), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: fine point. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קִלְּשׁוֹן

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«קִלְּשׁוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fine point** — 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:** 7053 · **BDB:** קִלְּשׁוֹן

### Glosses

fork (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fine point [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7053/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** doubtful word, in phrase וְלִשְׁלשׁ ק׳ 1 S 13:21 (poss. would be fine point, cf. Aramaic קלשׁ be thin, hence שׁ׳ ק׳ tridens, E.V. forks, but against anal., v. especially Dr).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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 «קִלְּשׁוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7053/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 13:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.13.21/)

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וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה הַפְּצִ֣ירָה פִ֗ים לַמַּֽחֲרֵשֹׁת֙ וְלָ֣אֵתִ֔ים וְלִשְׁלֹ֥שׁ קִלְּשׁ֖וֹן וּלְהַקַּרְדֻּמִּ֑ים וּלְהַצִּ֖יב הַדָּרְבָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the charge two.thirds.of.a.shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks and for three fork and for the axes and to make.straight the goad\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the price of the filing was a pim for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks with three teeth, and for the axes; and to set the goads.

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