Maqtsoa מִקְצֹעַ

From God's Wiki, the Bible topic encyclopedia
Maqtsoa
מִקְצֹעַ
Transliterationmaqtsoa
Strong's numberH4740 (H4740H, H4740G)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glosscorner
Occurrences12 in 10 verses
Most frequent inNehemiah (4)

Maqtsoa (Hebrew מִקְצֹעַ, Strong's H4740) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “corner”. It occurs 12 times in 10 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H4740H: corner

1) place of corner structure, corner buttress, inner corner-buttress
1a) corner post, buttress-place, buttress
Also means: me.quts.ah (מְקֻצְעָה "corner" H4742)

H4740G: Angle

Angle, part of the fortifications of Jerusalem
This name means a corner structure, buttress

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVcorners (5), turning (5), every corner (1)
BSBcorners (5), angle (3), angle in the wall (1), near the angle (1), its corners (1)

Verses

Every verse with Maqtsoa, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Exodus

2 Chronicles

Nehemiah

Ezekiel

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
Dark mode