Cord
מֵיתָרStrong’s H4340metar (me-tar)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Metar is the Hebrew word usually translated “ropes their”, “ropes its” and “on bowstrings your”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,”
Meaning
- Cord, string
How it's translated
- ropes their 2
- ropes its 2
- and ropes their 2
- on bowstrings your 1
- tent cords your 1
- tent cords my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 4
- Exodus 2
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 39:40The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,
- Numbers 3:26And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
- Numbers 3:37And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
- Numbers 4:26And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.
- Numbers 4:32And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
- Psalms 21:12Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
Hebrew dictionary
מֵיתָר metar · cord
cord, string
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cord” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CORD, noun
[Latin Gr. According to the Welsh, this word signifies a twist, from cor, the root of chorus.]
- A string, or small rope, composed of several strands twisted together. Joshua 2:15
- A quantity of wood, or other material, originally measured with a cord or line.
- In scripture, the cords of the wicked are the snares with which they catch the unwary. Psalms 129:4
All definitions and other forms of “cord”
CORD, verb transitive
- To bind with a cord or rope; to fasten with cords.
- To pile wood or other material for measurement and sale by the cord
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.