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# אִבְצָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H78

**Ibzan** — 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

Ibzan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/78/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִבְצָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/78/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. judge of Isr. Ju 12:8, 10 (LagGN 1891, 19 (אֲ)בֶן צָן, 𝔊 Ἀβεσσαν, 𝔖 ܐܰܒܝܨܳܢ ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: Ibzan (2).

## In the verses

[Judges 12:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.10/#tree)

וַיָּ֣מָת אִבְצָ֔ן וַיִּקָּבֵ֖ר בְּבֵ֥ית לָֽחֶם בֵ֥ית לָֽחֶם׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.died Ibzan and he.was.buried in Bethlehem Bethlehem

*JPS 1917:* and Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem.

[Judges 12:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.8/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֤ט אַֽחֲרָיו֙ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אִבְצָ֖ן מִבֵּ֥ית לָֽחֶם בֵּ֥ית לָֽחֶם׃

*Word for word:* and he.judged after him (et) Israel Ibzan from Bethlehem Bethlehem

*JPS 1917:* And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/78.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/78/): 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).