Strong's Concordance meqareh: beam work Original Word: מְקָרֶהPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: meqareh Phonetic Spelling: (mek-aw-reh') Short Definition: rafters Brown-Driver-Briggs מְקָרֶה noun [masculine] beam-work; — Ecclesiastes 10:13. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance building From qarah; properly, something meeting, i.e. A frame (of timbers) -- building. see HEBREW qarah Forms and Transliterations הַמְּקָרֶ֑ה המקרה ham·mə·qā·reh hammekaReh hamməqārehLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 47461 Occurrence ham·mə·qā·reh — 1 Occ. Ecclesiastes 10:18 HEB: בַּעֲצַלְתַּ֖יִם יִמַּ֣ךְ הַמְּקָרֶ֑ה וּבְשִׁפְל֥וּת יָדַ֖יִם NAS: Through indolence the rafters sag, KJV: By much slothfulness the building decayeth; INT: indolence sag the rafters idleness of the hands |