mĩgamba

n. · class 4/4

1. beams, bars. Beams, bars. Structural wooden elements used in construction, particularly the bars or beams that connect and reinforce frames in buildings such as the tabernacle.

Example: Nowe ũrĩa ũigĩrĩire mĩgamba ĩrĩa yakĩrĩirũo nyũmba ciake cia ngoroba igũrũ rĩa maĩ; (setting the beams of your chambers upon the waters. Your chambers upon the waters : God’s heavenly dwelling above the upper waters of the sky, cf. Gn 1:6–7; Ps 29:10.); Ngai icio itariĩ o ta mĩgamba ya hekaarũ. Mũthũa ũcirĩĩyaga na thĩinĩ na ũkarĩa nguo ciacio na itingĩmenya, (Their faces become sooty from the smoke in the temple.)