מִקְלַעַת
miklaat · carving
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4734 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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miklaat (מִקְלַעַת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “carving”.
A figure carved in relief on wood or stone.
How to say it
mi·kla·at
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
- Figures cut to stand out from a surface.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- 1 Kings 6:18
And the cedar of the house inside had carvings of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar; no stone was seen.
- 1 Kings 6:29
And all the walls of the house all around he carved with engravings of carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.
- 1 Kings 6:32
And the two doors were of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and he spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.
- 1 Kings 7:31
And its mouth inside the capital and upward was a cubit; and its mouth was round, the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were carvings; and their panels were square, not round.