שְׂבָכָהsᵉbâkâh

lattice-work, network

Pronunciation: seb-aw-kaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7639

Meanings

1. probably window-lattice (2 Kings 1:2)

2. net-ornament on pillars (1 Kings 7:17; 1 Kings 7:18; 2 Chronicles 4:12)

3. network, toils, for catcing animals (figurative) (Job 18:8)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 16 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Kings 7:17 Each capital was decorated with seven sets of latticework and interwoven chains.
  • 1 Kings 7:18 He also encircled the latticework with two rows of pomegranates to decorate the capitals over the pillars.
  • 1 Kings 7:20 The capitals on the two pillars had 200 pomegranates in two rows around them, beside the rounded surface next to the latticework.
  • 1 Kings 7:41 the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the two networks of interwoven chains that decorated the capitals;
  • 1 Kings 7:42 the 400 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitals (two rows of pomegranates for each of the chain networks that decorated the capitals on top of the pillars);
  • 2 Kings 1:2 One day Israel’s new king, Ahaziah, fell through the latticework of an upper room at his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent messengers to the temple of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, to ask whether he would recover.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).