מְנוֹרָה
lampstand
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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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).
26 distinct verses where H4501 appears in the Absolute state, across 9 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Exodus 15 verses
- Exodus 25:31 מְנֹרַ֖ת הַ/מְּנוֹרָה֙ n c fs cs ptcl def.art + n c fs "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.
- Exodus 25:32 מְנֹרָ֗ה מְנֹרָ֔ה n c fs n c fs There shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side;
- Exodus 25:33 הַ/מְּנֹרָֽה ptcl def.art + n c fs three cups made like almond blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower; and three cups made like almond blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower, so for the six branches going out of the lampstand;
- Exodus 25:34 וּ/בַ/מְּנֹרָ֖ה conj + prep det + n c fs and in the lampstand four cups made like almond blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
- Exodus 25:35 הַ/מְּנֹרָֽה ptcl def.art + n c fs and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, and a bud under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
- Exodus 26:35 הַ/מְּנֹרָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand over against the table on the side of the tent toward the south: and you shall put the table on the north side.
- Exodus 30:27 הַ/מְּנֹרָ֖ה ptcl def.art + n c fs the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,
- Exodus 31:8 הַ/מְּנֹרָ֥ה ptcl def.art + n c fs the table and its vessels, the pure lampstand with all its vessels, the altar of incense,
- Exodus 37:17 הַ/מְּנֹרָ֖ה הַ/מְּנֹרָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.
- Exodus 37:18 מְנֹרָ֗ה מְנֹרָ֔ה n c fs n c fs There were six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of its one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of its other side:
- Exodus 37:19 הַ/מְּנֹרָֽה ptcl def.art + n c fs three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a bud and a flower, and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a bud and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.
- Exodus 37:20 וּ/בַ/מְּנֹרָ֖ה conj + prep det + n c fs In the lampstand were four cups made like almond-blossoms, its buds and its flowers;
- Exodus 39:37 הַ/מְּנֹרָ֨ה ptcl def.art + n c fs the pure lampstand, its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, all its vessels, the oil for the light,
- Exodus 40:4 הַ/מְּנֹרָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs You shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are on it. You shall bring in the lampstand, and light the lamps of it.
- Exodus 40:24 הַ/מְּנֹרָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs He put the lampstand in the tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the side of the tent southward.
Leviticus 1 verse
Numbers 4 verses
- Numbers 3:31 וְ/הַ/מְּנֹרָ֣ה conj + ptcl def.art + n c fs Their charge shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.
- Numbers 8:2 הַ/מְּנוֹרָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs "Speak to Aaron, and tell him, 'When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light in front of the lampstand.'"
- Numbers 8:3 הַ/מְּנוֹרָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Aaron did so. He lit its lamps to light the area in front of the lampstand, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 8:4 הַ/מְּנֹרָה֙ הַ/מְּנֹרָֽה ptcl def.art + n c fs ptcl def.art + n c fs This was the workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
Zechariah 1 verse
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.
