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# אֳנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H590

**ships** — used 7 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

ships [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/590/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֳנִי: n.m. coll. ships, fleet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/590/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 K 10:11 & f. v 22 coll. ships, fleet—abs. 1 K 9:26 +; cstr. 10:11 +;—of Sol. 1 K 9:26, 27; called א׳ תַרְשִׁישׁ (i.e. large, sea-going vessels, such as sail to Tarshish) 10:22(×2); א׳ חִירָם 10:11, 22; propelled by oars א׳־שַׁיִט Is 33:21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the ship\[s\] (4); ship\[s\] (3).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 9:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.27/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח חִירָ֤ם בָּֽאֳנִי֙ אֶת־עֲבָדָ֔יו אַנְשֵׁ֣י אֳנִיּ֔וֹת יֹדְעֵ֖י הַיָּ֑ם עִ֖ם עַבְדֵ֥י שְׁלֹמֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent Hiram in.\[the\] ship\[s\] (et) servants his men of.ships \[who\].knew (of).the sea with the.servants of.Solomon

*JPS 1917:* And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.

[1 Kings 9:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.26/#tree)

וָאֳנִ֡י עָשָׂה֩ הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה בְּעֶצְיֽוֹנ־גֶּ֨בֶרעֶצְיֽוֹנ־גֶּ֨בֶר אֲשֶׁ֧ר אֶת־אֵל֛וֹת עַל־שְׂפַ֥ת יַם־ס֖וּף בְּאֶ֥רֶץ אֱדֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* and ship\[s\] he.made the king Solomon at Ezion Geber which \[is\].with Elath on \[the\].shore of.\[the\].sea of.reed\[s\] in the.land of.Edom

*JPS 1917:* And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/590.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/590/): 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).