Hearth
מוֹקְדָהStrong’s H4169moqedah (mo-qe-dah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Moqedah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hearth”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.”
Meaning
- Hearthhearth-the plate or top of altar
How it's translated
- hearth 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מוֹקְדָה moqedah · hearth
1) hearth 1a) hearth-the plate or top of altar
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hearth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HE'ARTH, noun
harth. A pavement or floor of brick or stone in a chimney, on which a fire is made to warm a room, and from which there is a passage for the smoke to ascend.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.