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title: קָלַע — carve · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קָלַע (lemma:קָלַע), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: carve. BDB 1906: vb. carve. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קָלַע

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«קָלַע» in the Tanakh dictionary: **carve** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** lemma:קָלַע · **BDB:** קָלַע²

### Glosses

he.carved (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

carve [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e2/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. carve [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e2/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. carve;— Pf. 3 ms. ק׳: c. 2 acc., carve walls with, 1 K 6:29; c. acc. cogn. + עַל v 32; c. acc. of thing carved v 35.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קָלַע» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5e2/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 6:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.35/)

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וְקָלַ֤ע כְּרוּבִים֙ וְתִ֣מֹר֔וֹת וּפְטֻרֵ֖י צִצִּ֑ים וְצִפָּ֣ה זָהָ֔ב מְיֻשָּׁ֖ר עַל־הַמְּחֻקֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.carved cherubim and palm.trees and spread.out.\[things\] of.blossoms and he.overlaid gold made.smooth on the.carved \[work\]

*JPS 1917:* And he carved thereon cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.

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[1 Kings 6:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.29/)

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וְאֵת֩ כָּל־קִיר֨וֹת הַבַּ֜יִת מֵסַ֣ב ׀ קָלַ֗ע פִּתּוּחֵי֙ מִקְלְעוֹת֙ כְּרוּבִ֣ים וְתִֽמֹרֹ֔ת וּפְטוּרֵ֖י צִצִּ֑ים מִלִּפְנִ֖ים וְלַחִיצֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and (et) all the.walls of the.house round.about he.carved engravings of.carvings of.cherubim and palm.trees and spread.out.\[things\] of.blossoms from to faces and to the outer

*JPS 1917:* And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without.

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