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# אֲבִיטָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H37

**Abital** — used 2 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

Abital [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/37/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבִיטָ֑ל: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/37/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (my father is (the) dew) a wife of David 2 S 3:4 1 Ch 3:3—אֲבִיָּם v. אֲבִיָּ֫הוּ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Abital (1); of Abital (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 3:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.4/#tree)

וְהָרְבִיעִ֖י אֲדֹנִיָּ֣ה בֶן־חַגִּ֑ית וְהַחֲמִישִׁ֖י שְׁפַטְיָ֥ה בֶן־אֲבִיטָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] the fourth Adonijah the.son of.Haggith and.\[was\] the fifth Shephatiah the.son of.Abital

*JPS 1917:* and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

[1 Chronicles 3:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.3/#tree)

הַחֲמִישִׁ֥י שְׁפַטְיָ֖ה לַאֲבִיטָ֑ל הַשִּׁשִּׁ֥י יִתְרְעָ֖ם לְעֶגְלָ֥ה אִשְׁתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* the fifth \[was\].Shephatiah of Abital the sixth \[was\].Ithream of Eglah wife his

*JPS 1917:* the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/37/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).