Rafter
מְקָרֶהStrong’s H4746meqareh (me-qa-reh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Meqareh is the Hebrew word usually translated “rafter”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.”
Meaning
- Beam work
How it's translated
- the rafter 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מְקָרֶה meqareh · rafter
beam work
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rafter” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
R'AFTER, noun
[Gr. to cover; a roof.]
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.