Bowl
מְנַקִּיָּהStrong’s H4518menaqqiyyah (me-naq-qiy-yah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Menaqqiyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “bowls” and “bowls its”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.”
Meaning
- Sacrificial bowl or cup
How it's translated
- the bowls 2
- and bowls its 1
- bowls its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Numbers 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 37:16And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.
- Numbers 4:7And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:
- Jeremiah 52:19And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away.
Hebrew dictionary
מְנַקִּיָּה menaqqiyyah · bowl
sacrificial bowl or cup
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bowl” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOWL, noun
[In Latin, vola is the hollow of the hand.]
- A concave vessel to hold liquors, rather wide than deep, and thus distinguished from a cup, which is rather deep than wide.
- The hollow part of any thing; as the bowl of a spoon.
- A basin; a fountain.
All definitions and other forms of “bowl”
BOWL, noun
A ball of wood used for play on a level plat of ground.
BOWL, verb intransitive
To play with bowls, or at bowling.
BOWL, verb transitive
To roll as a bowl; also, to pelt with any thing rolled.
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.