Lexical Summary peqaim: gourd (shaped) ornaments Original Word: פֶקַעTransliteration: peqaim Phonetic Spelling: (peh'-kah) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: gourd (shaped) ornaments Meaning: gourd (shaped) ornaments Strong's Concordance a semi-globeFrom an unused root meaning to burst; only used as an architectural term of an ornament similar to paqqu'ah, a semi-globe -- knop. see HEBREW paqqu'ah Brown-Driver-Briggs H6497. peqaim מְּקָעִים noun masculine1 Kings 7:24 plural carved wood or metal ornaments, either ball-, knob-shaped (Löwp. 332 f.) of gourd-shaped (so most; compare following; Syriac flowers [Lexicons]); — 1 Kings 6:18; 7:24 (twice in verse). |
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