Socket
נֶ֫קֶבStrong’s H5345neqev (ne-qev)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Neqev is the Hebrew word usually translated “settings your”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.”
Meaning
- Groove, socket, hole, cavity, settingstechnical term relating to jeweller's work
How it's translated
- and settings your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
נֶ֫קֶב neqev · socket
1) groove, socket, hole, cavity, settings 1a) technical term relating to jeweller's work
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “socket” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SOCK'ET, noun
- The little hollow tube or place in which a candle is fixed in the candlestick.
- Any hollow thing or place which receives and holds something else; as the sockets of the teeth or of the eyes. his eyeballs in their hollow sockets sink.
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.