1. border, molding, rim — A decorative border or molding (זֵר), specifically the gold rim or crown-like edge fashioned around sacred furniture in the tabernacle — the ark of the covenant, the table of showbread, and the altar of incense (Exod 25:11,24,25; 30:3-4; 37:2,11,12,26,27). Multilingual evidence is uniform: eng 'border/molding', spa 'moldura/borde', hin 'किनारा/किनारी', arb 'إِكليل' (wreath/crown), kor '테' (rim/edge), swa 'ukingo' (edge). The prepositional-suffixed form (לְזֵרוֹ 'to its molding') is a grammatical inflection of the same architectural term. 10×
AR["إِكليلاً","إِكليلاً-","إِكليلِهِ"]·ben["এর-পাড়-এর","ধার","ধারের-তার","পাড়","মুকুট"]·DE["Grenze","Grenze-von","Leiste-von","eine-Leiste-von","sein-Grenze","zu-sein-Leiste"]·EN["a-molding-of","border","border-of","its-border","molding-of","to-its-molding"]·FR["bordure","bordure-de","son-bordure","une-bordure-de","à-son-bordure"]·heb["זר","זר-","ל-זרו"]·HI["उसकी-किनारी","उसके-किनारे-के","किनारा","किनारा-","किनारी"]·ID["bingkai","bingkai-","bingkainya"]·IT["a-suo-cornice","confine","confine-di","cornice-di","suo-confine","un-cornice-di"]·jav["kagem-pepethanipun","kanggé-puyenganipun","pepethan","puyengan","puyengan-","tepian"]·KO["그것의-테","에게-그것의-테","테-","테를","테를-"]·PT["de-moldura-dele","moldura","moldura-","sua-moldura"]·RU["венец","венец-","венцом-его"]·ES["borde-de","moldura-de","su-borde","su-moldura"]·SW["ukingo","ukingo-","ukingo-wake"]·TR["çelenginin","çelenk","çelenk-","çelenğinin"]·urd["اُس-کے-طوق-کے","اُس-کے-کنگرے-کے","طوق","کنارہ","کنارہ-","کنگرہ"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† זֵר n.m. circlet, border (orig. that which presses, binds, cf. also Aramaic ܙܺܝܪܳܐ bracelet, זִירָא wreath, crown, NH זִיר id., זִירָה ring, wrestler’s ring; others from a √ זרר)—זֵר זָהָב Ex 25:11, 24, 25; 30:3; 37:2, 11, 12, 26; זֵרוֹ Ex 30:4; 37:27 (all P).