Shape
קֶ֫צֶבStrong’s H7095qetsev (qe-tsev)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qetsev is the Hebrew word usually translated “shape” and “extremities of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.”
Meaning
- Cut, shape, extremity, form, basecut, shape · extremity
How it's translated
- and a shape 1
- a shape 1
- to extremities of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 2
- Jonah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
קֶ֫צֶב qetsev · shape
1) cut, shape, extremity, form, base 1a) cut, shape 1b) extremity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shape” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHAPE, verb transitive
preterit tense shaped; participle passive shaped or shapen.
- To form or create.“I was shapen in iniquity” Psalms 51:5
- To mold or make into a particular form; to give form or figure to; as, to shape a garment.
- To mold; to cast; to regulate; to adjust; to adapt to a purpose.
- To direct; as, to shape a course.
All definitions and other forms of “shape”
- To image; to conceive.
SHAPE, verb intransitive
To square; to suit; to be adjusted.
SHAPE, noun
- Form or figure as constituted by lines and angles; as the shape of a horse or a tree; the shape of the head, hand or foot.
- External appearance.
- The form of the trunk of the human boky; as a clumsy shape; an elegant shape.
- A being as endowed with form.
- Idea; pattern.
- Form.
- Manner.
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.