Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4350
מְכוֹנָה
mekonahmek-o-naw'
base
24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉkôwnâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4350is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4350
a pedestal, also a spot
The King James renders it: base.
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
mekonah is rendered "base". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Fifteen of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 7:27In addition, he made ten movable stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
In addition, he made ten movable stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
1 Kings 7:27הַמְּכֹנ֛וֹת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fifteen of the word's twenty-four uses are in 1 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the stands13
- the stand7
- and the stands1
- foundations its1
- on the stand1
- to the stand1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְכוּרָה | mekurah | origin | Uses3 |
The words it stands beside
All 24, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 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
- הַמְּכֹנֽוֹת׃3
- הַמְּכוֹנָ֣ה2
- הַמְּכֹנָ֖ה2
- הַמְּכֹנ֑וֹת2
- הַמְּכֹנ֔וֹת2
- הַמְּכֹנ֖וֹת2
- הַמְּכֹנ֞וֹת2
- בַּמְּכוֹנָ֑ה1
- הַמְּכוֹנָ֖ה1
- הַמְּכוֹנָ֗ה1
- הַמְּכֹנָה֙1
- הַמְּכֹנ֛וֹת1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural13HTd/Ncfpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular7HTd/Ncfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular2HRd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Td/Ncfpa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfpc/Sp3ms
1 Kings
fifteen uses
In addition, he made ten movable stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
- הַמְּכֹנ֛וֹתhamekhonotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the stands
- הַמְּכוֹנָ֣הhamekhonahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the stand
This was the design of the stands: They had side panels attached to uprights,
- הַמְּכוֹנָ֖הhamekhonahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the stand
Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and a basin resting on four supports, with wreaths at each side.
- לַמְּכוֹנָ֤הlamekhonahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the stand
There were four wheels under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand; each wheel was a cubit and a half in diameter.
- בַּמְּכוֹנָ֑הbamekhonahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: on the stand
Each stand had four handles, one for each corner, projecting from the stand.
- הַמְּכֹנָ֖הhamekhonahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the stand
- הַמְּכֹנָ֖הhamekhonahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the stand
At the top of each stand was a circular band half a cubit high. The supports and panels were cast as a unit with the top of the stand.
- הַמְּכוֹנָ֗הhamekhonahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the stand
- הַמְּכֹנָה֙hamekhonahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the stand
In this way he made the ten stands, each with the same casting, dimensions, and shape.
- הַמְּכֹנ֑וֹתhamekhonotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the stands
He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
- הַמְּכוֹנָ֣הhamekhonahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the stand
- הַמְּכֹנֽוֹת׃hamekhonotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the stands
He set five stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north, and he put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple.
- הַמְּכֹנ֔וֹתhamekhonotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the stands
the ten stands; the ten basins on the stands;
- הַמְּכֹנ֖וֹתhamekhonotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the stands
- הַמְּכֹנֽוֹת׃hamekhonotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the stands
2 Kings
three uses
King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.
- הַמְּכֹנ֗וֹתhamekhonotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the stands
Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
- הַמְּכֹנ֞וֹתhamekhonotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the stands
As for the two pillars, the Sea, and the movable stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
- וְהַמְּכֹנ֔וֹתvehamekhonotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the stands
2 Chronicles
two uses
the stands; the basins on the stands;
- הַמְּכֹנ֖וֹתhamekhonotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the stands
- הַמְּכֹנֽוֹת׃hamekhonotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the stands
Ezra
one use
They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD—both the morning and evening burnt offerings—even though they feared the people of the land.
- מְכ֣וֹנֹתָ֔יוmekhonotavnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: foundations its
Jeremiah
three uses
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,
- הַמְּכֹנ֑וֹתhamekhonotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the stands
Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
- הַמְּכֹנ֞וֹתhamekhonotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the stands
As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
- הַמְּכֹנ֔וֹתhamekhonotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the stands
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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.