עֵלִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5941

Eli — used 33 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Eli tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵלִי: n.pr.m. Eli tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr.m. Eli, priest at Shiloh 1 S 1:3 (+ v 3 𝔊 Th Klo HPS), v 9, 12 + 28 times 1–4 + 14:3 1 K 2:27; Ηλει.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (24 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (17 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Eli (24); of Eli (9).

In the verses

1 Samuel 2:12 · tree →

וּבְנֵ֥י עֵלִ֖י בְּנֵ֣י בְלִיָּ֑עַל לֹ֥א יָדְע֖וּ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

Word for word: and the.sons of.Eli [were].sons of.worthlessness not they.knew (et) Yahweh

JPS 1917: Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not the LORD.

1 Samuel 1:25 · tree →

וַֽיִּשְׁחֲט֖וּ אֶת־הַפָּ֑ר וַיָּבִ֥יאוּ אֶת־הַנַּ֖עַר אֶל־עֵלִֽי׃

Word for word: and they.slaughtered (et) the.young bull and they.brought (et) the lad to Eli

JPS 1917: And when the bullock was slain, the child was brought to Eli.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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