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# אַמְצִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H557

**Amzi** — 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

Amzi [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/557/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַמְצִי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/557/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a Levite 1 Ch 6:31. man of priestly line Ne 11:12 (not in ‖ 1 Ch 9:12).

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 (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 Amzi (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.31/#tree)

בֶּן־אַמְצִ֥י בֶן־בָּנִ֖י בֶּן־שָֽׁמֶר׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Amzi the.son of.Bani the.son of.Shemer

*JPS 1917:* the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer;

[Nehemiah 11:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.12/#tree)

וַאֲחֵיהֶ֗ם עֹשֵׂ֤י הַמְּלָאכָה֙ לַבַּ֔יִת שְׁמֹנֶ֥ה מֵא֖וֹת עֶשְׂרִ֣ים וּשְׁנָ֑יִם וַ֠עֲדָיָה בֶּן־יְרֹחָ֤ם בֶּן־פְּלַלְיָה֙ בֶּן־אַמְצִ֣י בֶן־זְכַרְיָ֔ה בֶּן־פַּשְׁח֖וּר בֶּן־מַלְכִּיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and brothers their \[who\].did (of).the work of the house eight hundred(s) twenty and two and Adaiah the.son of.Jeroham the.son of.Pelaliah the.son of.Amzi the.son of.Zechariah the.son of.Pashhur the.son of.Malkijah

*JPS 1917:* and their brethren that did the work of the house, eight hundred twenty and two; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/557.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/557/): 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).