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# אׇהֳלִיאָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H171

**Oholiab** — used 5 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

Oholiab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/171/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָהֳלִיאָב: n.pr.m. Ohŏliab [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/171/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Ohŏliab (Father’s tent, cf. Ph. אהלבעל, אהלמלך; Sab. אהלעתֿתר, אהלאל) chief assistant of Bezalel in construction of tabernacle, etc. Ex 31:6; 35:34; 36:1, 2; 38:23.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 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: Oholiab (5).

## In the verses

[Exodus 35:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.34/#tree)

וּלְהוֹרֹ֖ת נָתַ֣ן בְּלִבּ֑וֹ ה֕וּא וְאָֽהֳלִיאָ֥ב בֶּן־אֲחִיסָמָ֖ךְ לְמַטֵּה־דָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and to teach he.has.put in heart his he and Oholiab the.son of.Ahisamach of the.tribe of.Dan

*JPS 1917:* And He hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

[Exodus 31:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.31.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.31.6/#tree)

וַאֲנִ֞י הִנֵּ֧ה נָתַ֣תִּי אִתּ֗וֹ אֵ֣ת אָהֳלִיאָ֞ב בֶּן־אֲחִֽיסָמָךְ֙ לְמַטֵּה־דָ֔ן וּבְלֵ֥ב כָּל־חֲכַם־לֵ֖ב נָתַ֣תִּי חָכְמָ֑ה וְעָשׂ֕וּ אֵ֖ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוִּיתִֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* and I here! I.have.appointed with him (et) Oholiab the.son of.Ahisamach of the.tribe of.Dan and in.\[the\] heart of.every \[person\].skillful of.heart I.have.put skill and they.will.make (et) all that I have.commanded.you

*JPS 1917:* And I, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all that are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/171.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/171/): 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).