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# בִּלְגָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1083

**Bilgah** — 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

Bilgah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1083/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּלְגָּה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1083/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cheerfulness)— priest of 15th course (David’s time) 1 Ch 24:14. priest that went up with Zerubbabel Ne 12:5, 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: Bilgah (3).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 12:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.5/#tree)

מִיָּמִ֥ין מַֽעַדְיָ֖ה בִּלְגָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* Mijamin Moadiah Bilgah

*JPS 1917:* Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah;

[Nehemiah 12:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.18/#tree)

לְבִלְגָּ֣ה שַׁמּ֔וּעַ לִֽשְׁמַעְיָ֖ה יְהוֹנָתָֽן׃

*Word for word:* of Bilgah Shammua of Shemaiah Jonathan

*JPS 1917:* of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1083.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1083/): 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).