Word study

Panels

5 Hebrew words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “panels”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “panels” or one of its forms.

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • מִסְגֶּרֶת misgerethborder, rimtranslated this way 6 times of its 16 uses · Strong’s H4526Noun  ·  Translated: rim 6, panels 5, strongholds 3, side panels 1

    1 Kings 7:28 This was the design of the stands: They had side panels attached to uprights,

    1 Kings 7:29 and on the panels between the uprights were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the uprights was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of beveled work.

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  • דֶּלֶת delethdoortranslated this way 2 times of its 84 uses · Strong’s H1817Noun  ·  Translated: doors 39, door 23, gates 10, panels 2

    Ezekiel 41:24 and each door had two swinging panels. There were two panels for one door and two for the other.

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  • צֵלָע tsêlârib, sidetranslated this way 1 time of its 36 uses · Strong’s H6763Noun  ·  Translated: side 11, side rooms 9, sides 4, boards 2

    1 Kings 6:34 The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.

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  • לוּחַ lûachtablet, board or plank, platetranslated this way 1 time of its 42 uses · Strong’s H3871Noun  ·  Translated: tablets 33, tablet 3, boards 2

    Song of Solomon 8:9 If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver upon her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

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  • סָפַן sâphancover, cover in, paneltranslated this way 1 time of its 6 uses · Strong’s H5603Verb  ·  Translated: paneled 2, reserved 1, roofing 1, roofed 1

    Jeremiah 22:14 who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.