Word Study · Strong's H4568 · Hebrew

מַעֲבֶה

maabeh

mah-ab-eh'

Strong's 1890 spelling: maʻăbeh

“properly, compact (part of soil), i.e. loam”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

properly, compact (part of soil), i.e. loam

Rendered in the KJV as

clay.

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inflected formdistinct spellings

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The word itself

Inflected forms · 1

בְּמַעֲבֵ֖ה1

How it is rendered · 1

in [the] mold of1

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How it parses · 1

preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1

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1 Kings1 occurrence

1 Kings 7:46בְּמַעֲבֵ֖הbemaavehpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.here: in [the] mold of

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