Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4050
מְגֵרָה
megerahmeg-ay-raw'
saw
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉgêrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4050is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4050
a saw
The King James renders it: axe, saw.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
megerah is rendered "saw". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 12:31David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 12:31בַּ֠מְּגֵרָה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's four uses are in 1 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- with the saw2
- and with the saws1
- at the saws1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בַּ֠מְּגֵרָה1
- בַּמְּגֵרָ֖ה1
- בַּמְּגֵרָ֜ה1
- וּבַמְּגֵר֔וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular3HRd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural1HC/Rd/Ncfpa
2 Samuel
one use
David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
- בַּ֠מְּגֵרָהbamegerahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: at the saws
1 Kings
one use
All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.
- בַּמְּגֵרָ֖הbamegerahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: with the saw
1 Chronicles
two uses
David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
- בַּמְּגֵרָ֜הbamegerahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: with the saw
- וּבַמְּגֵר֔וֹתuvamegerotconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and with the saws
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.