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# אֵחוּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H261

**Ehud** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ehud [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/261/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵחוּד: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/261/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (union from אֱחוּד?) a Benjamite 1 Ch 8:6 = אֵחִי Gn 46:21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Ehud (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 8:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.6/#tree)

וְאֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵ֣י אֵח֑וּד אֵ֣לֶּה הֵ֞ם רָאשֵׁ֤י אָבוֹת֙ לְי֣וֹשְׁבֵי גֶ֔בַע וַיַּגְל֖וּם אֶל־מָנָֽחַת׃

*Word for word:* and these \[were\].the.sons of.Ehud these they \[were.the\].heads of.fathers of the.inhabitants of.Geba and people took.them.into.exile to Manahath

*JPS 1917:* And these are the sons of Ehud — these are the heads of fathers' houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and they were carried captive to Manahath;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/261.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/261/): 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).