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# אֵהוּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H164

**Ehud** — used 9 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

Ehud [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/164/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵהוּד: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/164/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a Benjamite, son of Gera, deliverer of Isr. from Moab Ju 3:15, 16, 20(×2), 21, 23, 26; 4:1. a Benjamite, son of Bilhan (= foregoing?) 1 Ch 7:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Judges 4:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.4.1/#tree)

וַיֹּסִ֙פוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת הָרַ֖ע בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְאֵה֖וּד מֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* and they.repeated the.people of.Israel to do the evil in the.eyes of.Yahweh and Ehud he.had.died

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.

[Judges 3:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.23/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵ֥א אֵה֖וּד הַֽמִּסְדְּר֑וֹנָה וַיִּסְגֹּ֞ר דַּלְת֧וֹת הָעַלִיָּ֛ה בַּעֲד֖וֹ וְנָעָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out Ehud to the porch and he.closed the.doors of the.roof.chamber behind him and he.locked.\[them\]

*JPS 1917:* Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper chamber upon him, and locked them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/164.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/164/): 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).