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title: רִקֻּעַ — expansion · The Tanakh dictionary
description: רִקֻּעַ (7555), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: expansion. BDB 1906: expansion. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# רִקֻּעַ

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«רִקֻּעַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **expansion** — 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:** 7555 · **BDB:** רִקּוּעַ

### Glosses

beaten.out (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

expansion [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7555/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

expansion [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7555/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] expansion;—pl. cstr. וְעָשׂוּ אֹתָם רִקֻּעֵי פַחִים Nu 17:3 expansions of plates, i.e. they shall be beaten into broad plates.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «רִקֻּעַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1512/7555/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 17:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.17.3/)

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אֵ֡ת מַחְתּוֹת֩ הַֽחַטָּאִ֨ים הָאֵ֜לֶּה בְּנַפְשֹׁתָ֗ם וְעָשׂ֨וּ אֹתָ֜ם רִקֻּעֵ֤י פַחִים֙ צִפּ֣וּי לַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ כִּֽי־הִקְרִיבֻ֥ם לִפְנֵֽי־יְהוָ֖ה וַיִּקְדָּ֑שׁוּ וְיִֽהְי֥וּ לְא֖וֹת לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* (et) the.censers of the.sinners (the) these by lives their and people.will.make them beaten.out of.thin.plates plating for the altar (dm) they brought.them.near before Yahweh and they.became.holy and let.them.become (into).a sign for the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* even the fire-pans of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar — for they are become holy, because they were offered before the LORD — that they may be a sign unto the children of Israel.'

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