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מְקָרֶה

me.qa.reh

rafter

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Strong’s H4746Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

rafters1

In the text

Ecclesiastes 10:18הַמְּקָרֶה
Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מְקָרֶה n.[m.] beam-work;—Ec 10:18.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.