Corner
מְקֻצְעָהStrong’s H4742mequtsah (me-quts-ah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mequtsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “corners of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.”
Meaning
- Place of corner structure, corner buttress, inner corner-buttresscorner post
How it's translated
- for corners of 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מְקֻצְעָה mequtsah · corner
1) place of corner structure, corner buttress, inner corner-buttress 1a) corner post
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “corner” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CORNER, noun
[See Horn and Grain.]
- The point where two converging lines meet; properly, the external point; an angle; as, we meet at the corner of the state-house, or at the corner of two streets.
- The interior point where two lines meet; an angle.
- The space between two converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
- An inclosed place; a secret or retired place.“This thing was not done in a corner” Acts 26:26
All definitions
- Indefinitely any part; a part.
- The end, extremity or limit; as the corners of the head or beard. and 19. Leviticus 21:5
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.