מְנוֹרָה
lampstand
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H4501 appears in the Book of 2 Kings — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Kings
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, מנורה (mᵉnôwrâh) means “lampstand.” The word gravitates to Exodus (52%), then Numbers and 2 Chronicles. It turns up in 31 verses across 9 books, a moderately common footprint. It first appears in Exodus 25:31. Translators differ — “candlestick” in the King James Version, then “lampstand” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. Dig into 31-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4501 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 31
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 31 distinct verses.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #864
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 864 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 31 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 16 verses 52%
- Numbers 5 verses 16%
- 2 Chronicles 3 verses 10%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 31 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 22 verses · 71%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 16%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Candlestick 27×, Candlesticks 4×, Every candlestick 2×
- American Standard Version: Candlestick 26×, Candlesticks 5×, Every candlestick 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lampstand 22×, Lampstands 5×, Each lampstand 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lampstand 32×, The 8×, Lampstand of 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4501 across 40 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4501 across 40 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4501 across 34 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4501 across 49 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. in private house 2 K 4:10. e.g. 2 Kings 4:10
- 2. ten lampstands in temple, pl. 1 K 7:49 = 2 Ch 4:7, Je 52:19 (so also 𝔊; om. ‖ 2 K 25:14, 15, del. here Now Arch. ii. 40 2 Ch 4:20, also 1 Ch 28:15(×5), but 2 Ch 13:11 has מ׳ in sg. (as 3); cf. sg. in Zech.’s vision Zc 4:2. e.g. 1 Kings 7:49
- 3. seven-branched lampstand in tabern. Ex 25:31(×2), 32(×2) + 15 times Ex, Lv 24:4 (with lamps upon it), Nu 3:31; 4:9; 8:2, 3, 4(×2) (all P).—מָנוֹר v. II ניר. e.g. Exodus 25:31
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. lampstand (Ecclus מנורה fire, 43:4 d);—abs. מְנו׳ 2 K 4:10 + 9 times, מְנֹרָה Ex 25:32(×2) + 19 times; cstr. מְנוֹרַת Zc 4:2; 2 Ch 13:11, מְנֹרַת Ex 25:31 + 2 times; pl. מְנֹרוֹת abs. 1 K 7:49 + 2 times; cstr. 1 Ch 28:15(×2) 2 Ch 4:7;—lampstand:
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מנור (mânôwr) (H4500) — beam.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מְנוֹרָה
- candlestick, lamp. Pesik. Ekhah, p. 123ᵃ, a. e., v. כָּפָה. Gen. R. s. 20 מ׳ של זהב ונר וכ׳ a golden candlestick with an earthen lamp on top (typical of a noble woman married to an ignoble husband); a. fr.—Esp. the candlestick in the Sanctuary. Num. R. s. 15. Men. 29ᵃ. Tam. III, 9; Yoma 21ᵃ, v. דִּישּׁוּן; a. fr.—Pl. מְנוֹרוֹת. Men. l. c.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 30 distinct written forms H4501 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 30 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 31 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 25:31
- Leviticus 24:4
- Numbers 3:31
- 1 Kings 7:49
- 2 Kings 4:10
- 1 Chronicles 28:15
- 2 Chronicles 4:7
- Jeremiah 52:19
- Zechariah 4:2
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
