Words the Bible translates as poles

English uses one word here. The Bible uses 2 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.

badבַּדby itself, apart from everything else: the idea of one thing standing separate, which gives the common phrase "alone"
+3 more meanings
- a carrying pole: one of the long wooden bars slid through rings to lift and carry the ark, altar, or table
- a branch or shoot: a wooden limb growing out from a vine or stem
- a limb or part of the body: one of the members that make up a living frame
motahמוֹטָהthe wooden crossbar borne on the neck or shoulders: nearly always the bar of a yoke, and so the Bible's standing picture of forced servitude

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