Engraving
מִקְלַ֫עַתStrong’s H4734miqlaat (miq-la-at)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Miqlaat is the Hebrew word usually translated “carvings of”, “carving of” and “carvings”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.”
Meaning
- Carving
How it's translated
- carvings of 2
- carving of 1
- carvings 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 4
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 6:29And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
- 1 Kings 6:32The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
- 1 Kings 7:31And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
Hebrew dictionary
מִקְלַ֫עַת miqlaat · engraving
carving
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “engraving” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ENGRA'VING, participle present
tense Cutting or marking stones or metals, with a chisel or graver; imprinting.
All definitions and other forms of “engraving”
ENGRA'VING, noun
The act or art of cutting stones, metals and other hard substances, and representing thereon figures, letters, characters and devices; a branch of sculpture.
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.