מְקֵרָה
mekera · coolness
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4747 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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mekera (מְקֵרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “coolness”.
"the cool room" is the upper room where the air flows.
How to say it
me·ke·ra
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
- An upper room where the air circulates, cool in the heat.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Judges 3:20
Ehud came to him while he was sitting in the upper room of coolness that he had for himself alone. Ehud said, “I have a word of Elohim for you.” And he rose from the seat.
- Judges 3:24
When he had gone out, his servants came and looked, and there the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet in the room of coolness.”