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title: קֶרֶשׁ — board · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קֶרֶשׁ (7175), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 51 times: board. BDB 1906: n.m. board, boards. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קֶרֶשׁ

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«קֶרֶשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **board** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 51 times · **Key:** 7175 · **BDB:** קֶ֫רֶשׁ

### Glosses

frames (18); frame (12); the.frames (8)

### Meaning (OSHB)

board [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7175/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. board, boards [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7175/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 26:16 board, boards;—abs. ק׳ Ex 26:18 +, קָ֑רֶשׁ v 20 +; sf. קַרְשֵׁךְ Ez 27:6; pl. קְרָשִׁים v 15 +; cstr. קַרְשֵׁי v 26 +; sf. קְרָשָׁיו 35:11 +;— coll. boards, of deck Ez 27:6 (of Tyre under fig. of ship). board of tabern. Ex 26:15, 16(×2) + 45 times 26–40; Nu 3:36; 4:31 (all P).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 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 «קֶרֶשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7175/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 26:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.22/)

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וּֽלְיַרְכְּתֵ֥י הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן יָ֑מָּה תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה שִׁשָּׁ֥ה קְרָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and for the.innermost.parts of the.tabernacle westward you.will.make six frames

*JPS 1917:* And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

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[Exodus 36:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.27/)

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וּֽלְיַרְכְּתֵ֥י הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן יָ֑מָּה עָשָׂ֖ה שִׁשָּׁ֥ה קְרָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and for the.innermost.parts of the.tabernacle westward he.made six frames

*JPS 1917:* And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

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