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# אַחְלָי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H304

**Ahlai** — used 2 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

Ahlai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/304/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַחְלָ֑י: n.pr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/304/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. (DlPr 210 trans. O! would that! (cf. אַחְלַי sub iii. אָח supr. p. 25) § comp. interjectional Bab. name Aḫulapia, O! that I at last! ZimBP 116; cf. Ol§ 277; otherwise HalJAS 7, x. 360) f. daughter of Sheshan 1 Ch 2:31; so Be Öt al. in view of v 34. m. father of one of David’s mighty men (not in 2 S 23) 1 Ch 11:41.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[were\] Ahlai (1); of Ahlai (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 11:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.41/#tree)

אֽוּרִיָּה֙ הַחִתִּ֔י זָבָ֖ד בֶּן־אַחְלָֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Uriah the Hittite Zabad the.son of.Ahlai

*JPS 1917:* Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai;

[1 Chronicles 2:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.31/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֥י אַפַּ֖יִם יִשְׁעִ֑י וּבְנֵ֤י יִשְׁעִי֙ שֵׁשָׁ֔ן וּבְנֵ֥י שֵׁשָׁ֖ן אַחְלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Appaim \[were\].Ishi and the.sons of.Ishi \[were\].Sheshan and the.sons of.Sheshan \[were\].Ahlai

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/304.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/304/): 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).