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# אֶשְׁתּוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H850

**Eshton** — 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

Eshton [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/850/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶשְׁתּוֹן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/850/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a man of Judah (perhaps from אֵשֶׁת = effeminate or uxorious) 1 Ch 4:11, 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: Eshton (1); of Eshton (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.11/#tree)

וּכְל֥וּב אֲחִֽי־שׁוּחָ֖ה הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־מְחִ֑יר ה֖וּא אֲבִ֥י אֶשְׁתּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and Kelub the.brother of.Shuhah he.fathered (et) Mehir he \[was\].the.father of.Eshton

*JPS 1917:* And Chelub the brother of Shuhah begot Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

[1 Chronicles 4:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.12/#tree)

וְאֶשְׁתּ֗וֹן הוֹלִ֞יד אֶת־בֵּ֤ית רָפָא֙ בֵּ֤ית רָפָא֙ וְאֶת־פָּסֵ֔חַ וְאֶת־תְּחִנָּ֖ה אֲבִ֣י עִ֣יר נָחָ֑שׁ אֵ֖לֶּה אַנְשֵׁ֥י רֵכָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and Eshton he.fathered (et) Beth-Rapha and (et) Paseah and (et) Tehinnah the.father of.Ir Nahash these \[were\].the.men of.Recah

*JPS 1917:* And Eshton begot Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/850/): 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).