H6747 H6747
dish, platter; a shallow vessel used for serving or eating food
This noun refers to a dish or platter—a household utensil for food. Second Kings 21:13 uses it in a vivid simile: God will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, turning it upside down. Proverbs 19:24 and 26:15 satirize the sluggard who buries his hand in the dish but is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth. The domestic simplicity of the object makes it perfect for proverbial imagery. Cross-linguistic translations uniformly recognize this as a dish or bowl, with the Spanish and German articles ('el plato', 'der dish') marking definite reference.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The dish appears in two contexts: prophetic judgment (2 Kings) and wisdom literature (Proverbs). In the judgment oracle, the dish becomes a metaphor for total destruction—wiped clean and overturned. In the proverbs, it's the lazy person's food vessel, highlighting absurd indolence. The multilingual agreement on 'dish/plato/plat' confirms the basic household item, whether used literally or figuratively. The definite article in some occurrences ('the dish') may reflect the specific dish in the proverb or the generic class. 3×
AR["الصَّحْفَةَ", "بِ-الصَّحْفَةِ", "في-الصَّحْفَةِ"]·ben["-থালায়", "থালাকে", "থালায়"]·DE["[בצלחת]", "der-dish"]·EN["in-dish", "in-the-dish", "the-dish"]·FR["le-dish", "בצלחת"]·heb["ב-צלחת", "ה-צלחת"]·HI["थाली-में", "ह-थाली-को"]·ID["di-piring", "piring"]·IT["il-dish", "nel-in-dish", "nel-in-il-dish"]·jav["ing-", "ing-piring"]·KO["그-접시를", "접시-에"]·PT["no-prato", "o-prato"]·RU["блюдо", "в-блюде", "в-блюдо"]·ES["el-plato", "en-el-plato"]·SW["katika-sahani", "sahani"]·TR["tabağa", "tabağı-"]·urd["میں-طباق", "پیالے", "پیالے-میں"]
Related Senses
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† צַלַּ֫חַת n.f. dish;—2 K 21:13 (sim.), צַלָּ֑חַת Pr 19:24; 26:15 (v. טמן).