menora · lampstand

What it means

menora (מְנוֹרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “lampstand”.

A stand with branches for the lamps; in Hebrew, "menorah".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The seven-branched stand for the sanctuary's lights.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• lampstand ×36
• lampstands ×6

Where it appears

• Exodus×20
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×6
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×7
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Zechariah×2

• Exodus 25:31

  You shall make a lampstand of pure gold; of hammered work the lampstand shall be made: its base and its shaft, its cups, its knobs, and its flowers shall be of one piece with it.

• Exodus 25:32

  Six branches shall go out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from the one side of it and three branches of the lampstand from the other side of it;

• Exodus 25:33

  three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the one branch, with knob and flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the other branch, with knob and flower; so for the six branches that go out from the lampstand.

• Exodus 25:34

  And on the lampstand itself four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its knobs and its flowers;

• Exodus 25:35

  and a knob under two of the branches of one piece with it, and a knob under two of the branches of one piece with it, and a knob under two of the branches of one piece with it, for the six branches that go out from the lampstand.

• Exodus 26:35

  You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the dwelling; and the table you shall put on the north side.

• Exodus 30:27

  the table and all its utensils, the lampstand and its utensils, the altar of incense,

• Exodus 31:8

  and the table and its utensils, and the pure lampstand and all its utensils, and the altar of incense,

• Exodus 35:14

  and the lampstand for the light and its utensils and its lamps, and the oil for the light;

• Exodus 37:17

  And he made the lampstand of pure gold; of hammered work he made the lampstand, its base and its shaft; its cups, its knobs, and its flowers were of one piece with it.

• Exodus 37:18

  And six branches went out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from its one side, and three branches of the lampstand from its second side.

• Exodus 37:19

  Three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the one branch, a knob and a flower, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms on another branch, a knob and a flower; so for the six branches that went out from the lampstand.

• Exodus 37:20

  And on the lampstand were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its knobs and its flowers.

• Exodus 39:37

  the pure lampstand, its lamps, the lamps set in order, and all its utensils, and the oil for the light;

• Exodus 40:4

  And you shall bring in the table and set in order what belongs on it; and you shall bring in the lampstand and set up its lamps.

• Exodus 40:24

  And he put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the dwelling southward,

• Leviticus 24:4

  On the pure lampstand he shall arrange the lamps before YHWH continually.

• Numbers 3:31

  And their charge is the ark, and the table, and the lampstand, and the altars, and the utensils of the Holy Place with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.

• Numbers 4:9

  And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its trays, and all its vessels for oil with which they minister to it.

• Numbers 8:2

  “Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light toward the front of the lampstand.’”

• Numbers 8:3

  And Aaron did so: he lit its lamps toward the front of the lampstand, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Numbers 8:4

  And this was the workmanship of the lampstand: hammered work of gold; from its base to its blossoms it was hammered work. According to the vision that YHWH had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

• 1 Kings 7:49

  and the lampstands, five on the right and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, of fine gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the snuffers, of gold;

• 2 Kings 4:10

  Let us make, please, a small walled upper room and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lampstand; and it will be, when he comes to us, he can turn aside there.”

• 1 Chronicles 28:15

  and the weight for the lampstands of gold and their lamps of gold, by the weight of each lampstand and its lamps; and for the lampstands of silver, by weight, for each lampstand and its lamps, according to the service of each lampstand;

• 2 Chronicles 4:7

  He made the ten lampstands of gold according to their rule, and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left.

• 2 Chronicles 4:20

  the lampstands and their lamps, to burn according to the rule before the inner sanctuary, of fine gold;

• 2 Chronicles 13:11

  They offer up in smoke to YHWH burnt offerings every morning and every evening, and fragrant incense; they set the row of bread on the pure table, and the lampstand of gold with its lamps to burn every evening; for we keep the charge of YHWH our Elohim, but you have abandoned him.

• Jeremiah 52:19

  The cups, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the libation bowls, what was gold, in gold, and what was silver, in silver, the chief of the guard took.

• Zechariah 4:2

  And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I have seen, and look, a lampstand all of gold, and its bowl on its top, and its seven lamps on it; seven and seven pipes for the lamps that are on its top.

• Zechariah 4:11

  And I answered and said to him, “What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?”

And 11 more times.