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# אֱלִישֶׁבַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H472

**Elisheba** — 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

Elisheba [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/472/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱלִישֶׁ֫בַע: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/472/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (God is an oath, by which one swears, cf. Is 19:18 Am 8:14 Zp 1:5) wife of Aaron Ex 6:23; = Ἐλεισαβεθ 𝔊, cf. Lu 1:5.

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 (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: Elisheba (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 6:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.23/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֨ח אַהֲרֹ֜ן אֶת־אֱלִישֶׁ֧בַע בַּת־עַמִּינָדָ֛ב אֲח֥וֹת נַחְשׁ֖וֹן ל֣וֹ לְאִשָּׁ֑ה וַתֵּ֣לֶד ל֗וֹ אֶת־נָדָב֙ וְאֶת־אֲבִיה֔וּא אֶת־אֶלְעָזָ֖ר וְאֶת־אִֽיתָמָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Aaron (et) Elisheba the.daughter of.Amminadab the.sister of.Nahshon for himself to a.wife and she.bore to him (et) Nadab and (et) Abihu (et) Eleazar and (et) Ithamar

*JPS 1917:* And Aaron took him Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, to wife; and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/472.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/472/): 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).