maktsoa · corner

What it means

maktsoa (מַקְצוֹעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “corner”.

Angle.

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 corner where two sides of a wall or courtyard meet, an angle.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• angle ×5
• corners ×5
• corner ×2

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×4
• Ezekiel×5

• Exodus 26:24

  They shall be doubled from below, and together they shall be complete at its top, at the first ring; so it shall be for both of them; they shall form the two corners.

• Exodus 36:29

  And they were double from below, and together they were complete to its top, at the one ring; so he made for both of them, for the two corners.

• 2 Chronicles 26:9

  Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem on the Corner Gate and on the Valley Gate and on the angle, and fortified them.

• Nehemiah 3:19

  And next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired a second section, opposite the ascent to the armory at the angle.

• Nehemiah 3:20

  After him Baruch the son of Zaccai zealously repaired a second section, from the angle to the entrance of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

• Nehemiah 3:24

  After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired a second section, from the house of Azariah to the angle and to the corner.

• Nehemiah 3:25

  Palal the son of Uzai repaired opposite the angle and the tower that projects from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him, Pedaiah the son of Parosh.

• Ezekiel 41:22

  The altar, of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and it had corners, and its length and its walls were of wood; and he spoke to me, “This is the table that is before YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 46:21

  And he brought me out into the outer court and led me across to the four corners of the court; and look, a court in a corner of the court, a court in a corner of the court.

• Ezekiel 46:22

  In the four corners of the court there were enclosed courts, forty cubits long and thirty wide; one measure for the four in the corners.

And 2 more times.