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# אֲבִינָדָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H41

**Abinadab** — used 13 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

Abinadab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/41/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲבִינָדָב: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/41/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my father is noble) a man of Gibeah in whose house the ark tarried 1 S 7:1 2 S 6:3(×2), 4 1 Ch 13:7. a son of Jesse 1 S 16:8; 17:13; 1 K 4:11 (? perhaps otherwise unknown; Klo proposes אֲבִינֵר בְּ). a son of Saul 1 S 31:2 1 Ch 8:33; 9:39; 10:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 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: Abinadab (7); of Abinadab (5); \[was\] Abinadab (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.11/#tree)

בֶּן־אֲבִֽינָדָ֖ב כָּל־נָ֣פַת דֹּ֑אר טָפַת֙ בַּת־שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה הָ֥יְתָה לּ֖וֹ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* Ben- Abinadab all the.height of.Dor Taphath the.daughter of.Solomon she.became for him (into).a wife

*JPS 1917:* the son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife;

[1 Chronicles 2:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.13/#tree)

וְאִישַׁ֛י הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־בְּכֹר֖וֹ אֶת־אֱלִיאָ֑ב וַאֲבִינָדָב֙ הַשֵּׁנִ֔י וְשִׁמְעָ֖א הַשְּׁלִישִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* and Jesse he.fathered (et) firstborn his (et) Eliab and Abinadab \[was\].the second and Shimea \[was\].the third

*JPS 1917:* and Jesse begot his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/41.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/41/): 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).