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# אֲחִיתֹפֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H302

**Ahithophel** — used 20 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

Ahithophel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/302/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲחִיתֹ֫פֶל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/302/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my brother is folly?) David’s trusted & traitorous counsellor 2 S 15:12, 31(×2), 34; 16:15, 20, 21, 23(×2); 17:1, 6, 7, 14(×2), 15, 21, 23; 23:34 1 Ch 27:33, 34.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 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: Ahithophel (13); of Ahithophel (7).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 16:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.16.20/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אַבְשָׁל֖וֹם אֶל־אֲחִיתֹ֑פֶל הָב֥וּ לָכֶ֛ם עֵצָ֖ה מַֽה־נַּעֲשֶֽׂה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Absalom to Ahithophel give (for yourselves counsel what? will.we.do

*JPS 1917:* Then said Absalom to Ahithophel: 'Give your counsel what we shall do.'

[2 Samuel 23:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.34/#tree)

אֱלִיפֶ֥לֶט בֶּן־אֲחַסְבַּ֖י בֶּן־הַמַּֽעֲכָתִ֑יס אֱלִיעָ֥ם בֶּן־אֲחִיתֹ֖פֶל הַגִּלֹנִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Eliphelet the.son of.Ahasbai the.son of the.Maacathite Eliam the.son of.Ahithophel the Gilonite

*JPS 1917:* Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/302.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/302/): 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).