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# אֶלְפַּעַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H508

**Elpaal** — used 3 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

Elpaal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/508/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶלְפַּ֫עַל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/508/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (God of doing? cf. Ph. פעלאבסת) a Benjamite 1 Ch 8:11, 12, 18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: of Elpaal (2); Elpaal (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 8:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.18/#tree)

וְיִשְׁמְרַ֧י וְיִזְלִיאָ֛ה וְיוֹבָ֖ב בְּנֵ֥י אֶלְפָּֽעַל׃

*Word for word:* and Ishmerai and Izliah and Jobab \[were\].the.sons of.Elpaal

*JPS 1917:* and Ishmerai, and Izliah, and Jobab, were the sons of Elpaal.

[1 Chronicles 8:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.11/#tree)

וּמֵחֻשִׁ֛ים הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־אֲבִיט֖וּב וְאֶת־אֶלְפָּֽעַל׃

*Word for word:* and from Hushim he.fathered (et) Abitub and (et) Elpaal

*JPS 1917:* and of Hushim he begot Abitub, and Elpaal.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/508/): 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).