STRONGS NUMBER H6497


Word Summary
peqaim: gourd (shaped) ornaments
Original Word: פֶקַע
Transliteration: peqaim
Phonetic Spelling: (peh'-kah)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: gourd (shaped) ornaments
Meaning: gourd (shaped) ornaments
Strong's Concordance
a semi-globe

From an unused root meaning to burst; only used as an architectural term of an ornament similar to paqqu'ah, a semi-globe -- knop.

see HEBREW paqqu'ah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6497. peqaim

מְּקָעִיםnoun masculine1 Kings 7:24

plural carved wood or metal ornaments, either ball-, knob-shaped (Löwp. 332 f.) of gourd-shaped (so most; compare following; Syriac flowers [Lexicons]); — 1 Kings 6:18; 7:24 (twice in verse).