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Frame

שַׁלָבִּיםStrong’s H7948

shalav (sha-lav)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shalav is the Hebrew word usually translated “cross bars”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:”
1 Kings 7:28 KJV
Meaning
  1. Joinings (of bases)
How it's translated
  • the cross bars 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Kings 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

שַׁלָבִּים shalav · frame

joinings (of bases)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “frame” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FRAME, verb transitive

[Latin armus, Eng. arm.]

  1. To fit or prepare and unite several parts in a regular structure or entire thing; to fabricate by orderly construction and union of various parts; as, to frame a house or other building.
  2. To fit one thing to another; to adjust; to make suitable.
  3. To make; to compose; as, to frame a law.
  4. To regulate; to adjust; to shape; to conform; as, to frame our lives according to the rules of the gospel.
All definitions and other forms of “frame”
  1. To form and digest by thought; as, to frame ideas in the mind.
  2. To contrive; to plan; to devise; as, to frame a project or design.
  3. To invent; to fabricate, in a bad sense; as, to frame a story or lie.

FRAME, verb intransitive

To contrive.

    FRAME, noun

    1. The timbers of an edifice fitted and joined in the form proposed, for the purpose of supporting the covering; as the frame of a house, barn, bridge or ship.
    2. Any fabric or structure composed of parts united; as the frame of an ox or horse.
    3. Any kind of case or structure made for admitting, inclosing or supporting things; as the frame of a window, door, picture or looking glass.
    4. Among printers, a stand to support the cases in which the types are distributed.
    5. Among founders, a kind of ledge, inclosing a board, which being filled with wet sand, serves as a mold for castings.
    6. A sort of loom on which linen, silk, etc. is stretched for quilting or embroidering.
    7. Order; regularity; adjusted series or composition of parts.
    8. Form; scheme; structure; constitution; system; as a frame of government.
    9. Contrivance; projection.
    10. Shape; form; proportion.

    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.