מַסְמֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4548

nail — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

nail tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַסְמֵר²: n.m. nail tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Ec 12:11 nail (connexion with above √ dub.; 𝔗 מַסְמְרָא, Chr.Pal.Aramaic ܡܣܡܖ̈ܝܐ Schwally 63.122; NH vb. סמר nail on or up; Arabic مِسْمَارٌ is perhaps loan-word Frä 89);—pl. abs. מַסְמְרִים Is 41:7, מִסְמְרִים 1 Ch 22:3 (of iron; on—ִ v. Ges§ 85 f.); also מַסְמְרוֹת Je 10:4 (+ מַקָּבוֹת), מַשְׂמְרוֹת נְטוּעִים, Ec 12:11 (sim.; + דָּרְבֹנוֹת), and מִסְמְרוֹת 2 Ch 3:9 (of gold).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 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)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: nails (4).

In the verses

2 Chronicles 3:9 · tree →

וּמִשְׁקָ֛ל לְמִסְמְר֥וֹת לִשְׁקָלִ֖ים חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים זָהָ֑ב וְהָעֲלִיּ֖וֹת חִפָּ֥ה זָהָֽב׃

Word for word: and.[the] weight of nails to shekels fifty gold and the.upper rooms he.overlaid gold

JPS 1917: And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

Jeremiah 10:4 · tree →

בְּכֶ֥סֶף וּבְזָהָ֖ב יְיַפֵּ֑הוּ בְּמַסְמְר֧וֹת וּבְמַקָּב֛וֹת יְחַזְּק֖וּם וְל֥וֹא יָפִֽיק׃

Word for word: with silver and with gold he beautifies.it with nails and with hammers they make.them.strong and not it.will.stagger

JPS 1917: They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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