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title: שְׁחֵלֶת — scale · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁחֵלֶת (7827), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: scale. BDB 1906: n.f. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁחֵלֶת

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«שְׁחֵלֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **scale** — 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:** 7827 · **BDB:** שְׁחֵ֫לֶת

### Glosses

onycha (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

scale [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7827/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7827/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. an ingredient of the holy incense, + נָטָף, חֶלְבְּנָה, Ex 30:34; 𝔊 𝔙 ὄνυξ, onyx (whence AV onycha), i.e. unguis odoratus, the operculum, or closing-flap, of certain molluscs, with pungent odour when burnt, v. Thes 1388 f. Di Shipley-Cook Ency. Bib. Onycha; so most; KG Jacob ZMG xliii (1889), 354 proposes amber.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁחֵלֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7827/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 30:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.30.34/)

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וַיֹּאמֶר֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֜ה קַח־לְךָ֣ סַמִּ֗ים נָטָ֤ף ׀ וּשְׁחֵ֙לֶת֙ וְחֶלְבְּנָ֔ה סַמִּ֖ים וּלְבֹנָ֣ה זַכָּ֑ה בַּ֥ד בְּבַ֖ד יִהְיֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to Moses take for yourself spices stacte and onycha and galbanum spices and frankincense pure a.part in a.part it.will.be

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense; of each shall there be a like weight.

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