Clamp
מְחַבְּרָהStrong’s H4226mechabbrah (me-chab-b-rah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mechabbrah is the Hebrew word usually translated “clamps”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;”
Meaning
- Binder, clamp, joint
How it's translated
- and for the clamps 1
- for the clamps 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מְחַבְּרָה mechabbrah · clamp
binder, clamp, joint
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “clamp” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLAMP, noun
- In general, something that fastens or binds; a piece of timber or of iron, used to fasten work together; or a particular manner of uniting work by letting boards into each other.
- In ship-building, a thick plank on the inner part of a ships side, used to sustain the ends of the beams.
- A smooth crooked plate of iron forelocked on the trunnions of a cannon to keep it fast to the carriage.
- A pile of bricks laid up for burning, in which the end of one brick is laid over another, and a space is left between the bricks for the fire to ascend.
All definitions and other forms of “clamp”
CLAMP, verb transitive
- To fasten with clamps.
- In joinery, to fit a piece of board with the grain, to the end of another piece of board across the grain; as, to clamp a table to prevent its warping.
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.