Plate
עֶ֫שֶׁתStrong’s H6247eshet (e-shet)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Eshet is the Hebrew word usually translated “plate of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.”
Meaning
- Plate, slab, something fabricated
How it's translated
- a plate of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
עֶ֫שֶׁת eshet · plate
plate, slab, something fabricated
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “plate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PLATE, noun
[Latin Latus, with the radical sense of laid, spread.]
- A piece of metal, flat or extended in breadth.
- Armor of plate composed of broad pieces, and thus distinguished from mail.
- A piece of wrought silver, as a dish or other shallow vessel; hence, vessels of silver; wrought silver in general. plate by the laws of some states, is subject to a tax by the ounce.
- A small shallow vessel, made of silver or other metal, or of earth glazed and baked, from which provisions are eaten at table.
All definitions and other forms of “plate”
- The prize given for the best horse in a race.
- In architecture, the piece of timber which supports the ends of the rafters. [See Platform.]
PLATE, verb transitive
To cover or overlay with plate or with metal; used particularly of silver; as plated vessels.
- To arm with plate or metal for defense; as, to plate sin with gold.
- To adorn with place; as a plated harness.
- To beat into thin flat pieces or lamens.
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.