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# אׇהֳלִיבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H172

**Oholibah** — used 6 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

Oholibah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/172/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָהֳלִיבָה: n.pr.f. Ohŏliba [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/172/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. Ohŏliba (= אָהֳלִיבָהּ tent in her = (in meaning) אָהֳלָה cf. Sm) of Jerusalem as adulterous wife of י׳ Ez 23:4(×2), 11, 22, 36, 44.

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: Oholibah (5); O Oholibah (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 23:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.11/#tree)

וַתֵּ֙רֶא֙ אֲחוֹתָ֣הּ אָהֳלִיבָ֔ה וַתַּשְׁחֵ֥ת עַגְבָתָ֖הּ מִמֶּ֑נָּה וְאֶת־תַּ֨זְנוּתֶ֔יהָ מִזְּנוּנֵ֖י אֲחוֹתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and she.saw sister her Oholibah and she.acted.corruptly lust her more than.her and (et) prostitution(s) her more than.the.prostitution(s) her.sister her

*JPS 1917:* And her sister Oholibah saw this, yet was she more corrupt in her doting than she, and in her harlotries more than her sister in her harlotries.

[Ezekiel 23:44](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.44/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.44/#tree)

וַיָּב֣וֹא אֵלֶ֔יהָ כְּב֖וֹא אֶל־אִשָּׁ֣ה זוֹנָ֑ה כֵּ֣ן בָּ֗אוּ אֶֽל־אָֽהֳלָה֙ וְאֶל־אָ֣הֳלִיבָ֔ה אִשֹּׁ֖ת הַזִּמָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.went into her as goes into a.woman a.prostitute so they.went into Oholah and into Oholibah the.women of.(the) licentiousness

*JPS 1917:* For every one went in unto her, as men go in unto a harlot; so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/172/): 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).