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# אֱלִיפַז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H464

**Eliphaz** — used 15 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

Eliphaz [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/464/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱלִיפַז: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/464/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (God is fine gold?) son of Esau Gn 36:4, 10, 11, 12(×2), 15, 16 1 Ch 1:35, 36. friend of Job Jb 2:11; 4:1; 15:1; 22:1; 42:7, 9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 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: Eliphaz (10); of Eliphaz (4); \[were\] Eliphaz (1).

## In the verses

[Job 4:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.1/#tree)

וַ֭יַּעַן אֱלִיפַ֥ז הַֽתֵּימָנִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Eliphaz the Temanite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:

[Job 15:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.1/#tree)

וַ֭יַּעַן אֱלִיפַ֥ז הַֽתֵּימָנִ֗י וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Eliphaz the Temanite and he.said

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said:

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/464/): 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).