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# אֲחִימַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H289

**Ahiman** — used 4 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

Ahiman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/289/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲחִימַן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/289/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my brother is a gift? so Thes; cf. Arabic مَنٌّ ) a son of Anak Nu 13:22 Ju 1:10; אֲחִימָן֨ Jos 15:14. אֲחִימָן, v. NorziNu 13:22 GFMJu 1:10 (after Ven.1 Mich). a Levite, אֲחִימָ֑ן, 1 Ch 9:17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: Ahiman (4).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 9:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.17/#tree)

וְהַשֹּׁעֲרִים֙ שַׁלּ֣וּם וְעַקּ֔וּב וְטַלְמֹ֖ן וַאֲחִימָ֑ן וַאֲחִיהֶ֥ם שַׁלּ֖וּם הָרֹֽאשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and the gatekeepers \[were\].Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and brother their Shallum \[was\].the chief

*JPS 1917:* And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brother Shallum the chief;

[Joshua 15:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.14/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤רֶשׁ מִשָּׁם֙ כָּלֵ֔ב אֶת־שְׁלוֹשָׁ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י הָעֲנָ֑ק אֶת־שֵׁשַׁ֤י וְאֶת־אֲחִימַן֙ וְאֶת־תַּלְמַ֔י יְלִידֵ֖י הָעֲנָֽק׃

*Word for word:* and he.dispossessed from there Caleb (et) three the.sons of.(the) Anak (et) Sheshai and (et) Ahiman and (et) Talmai those.born of.(the) Anak

*JPS 1917:* And Caleb drove out thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/289/): 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).