Hebrew word · H4742
מְקֻצְעָה
limkutz'ot
corner
A corner or angle. It is a passive participle (literally "something cut off") from the root q-ts-', which in Lev 14:41–43 describes scraping the walls of a house. The participle names the place where a surface is cut or turned.
Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
1) place of corner structure, corner buttress, inner corner-buttress
1a) corner post
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
From the study of Exodus 26:23
- Range of meaning
A corner or angle. It is a passive participle (literally "something cut off") from the root q-ts-', which in Lev 14:41–43 describes scraping the walls of a house. The participle names the place where a surface is cut or turned.
- Against the English
Every English version has "corners", which is accurate. The Hebrew carries a builder's picture of the angle formed where one wall is cut off and another begins. English "corner" doesn't evoke that, but nothing is lost to the meaning.
- Used elsewhere in the period
Found in Exod 26:23–24 and 36:28–29 (the same corner frames), and in Ezek 46:21–22, where related forms describe the corners of the temple court. It belongs to the technical building vocabulary of priestly and temple texts.
Where it appears
Exodus · 2
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Exodus 26:23 לִמְקֻצְעֹ֖ת for [the] corners of
and two frames for the two back corners of the tabernacle,
Here: Built on a root meaning "to cut off, trim, scrape", so it pictures the place where a structure is "cut" at an angle: the corner. Here it means the two angles where the back wall meets the two long side walls.
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Exodus 36:28 לִמְקֻצְעֹ֖ת for [the] corners of
and two frames for the two back corners of the tabernacle,
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