Beating
מִקְשָׁהStrong’s H4749miqshah (miq-shah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Miqshah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hammered work”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.”
Meaning
- Hammered work, finely decorated cultic objects of gold or silver
How it's translated
- hammered work 9
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 6
- Numbers 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 25:31And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
- Exodus 25:36Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.
- Exodus 37:7And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
- Exodus 37:17And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:
- Exodus 37:22Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
- Numbers 8:4And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.
Hebrew dictionary
מִקְשָׁה miqshah · beating
hammered work, finely decorated cultic objects of gold or silver
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beating” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BE'ATING, participle present
tense Laying on blows; striking; dashing against; conquering; pounding; sailing against the direction of the wind; etc.
All definitions and other forms of “beating”
BE'ATING,noun
The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
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.