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# בִּלְהָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1092

**Bilhan** — used 4 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

Bilhan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1092/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּלְהָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1092/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. descendant of Esau Gn 36:27 = 1 Ch 1:42. a Benjamite 1 Ch 7:10(×2).

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: \[were\] Bilhan (2); Bilhan (1); of Bilhan (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.27/#tree)

אֵ֖לֶּה בְּנֵי־אֵ֑צֶר בִּלְהָ֥ן וְזַעֲוָ֖ן וַעֲקָֽן׃

*Word for word:* these \[were\].the.sons of.Ezer Bilhan and Zaavan and Akan

*JPS 1917:* These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan and Akan.

[1 Chronicles 1:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.42/#tree)

בְּֽנֵי־אֵ֔צֶר בִּלְהָ֥ן וְזַעֲוָ֖ן יַעֲקָ֑ן בְּנֵ֥י דִישׁ֖וֹן ע֥וּץ וַאֲרָֽן׃פ

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Ezer \[were\].Bilhan and Zaavan Jaakan the.sons of.Dishon \[were\].Uz and Aran

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz, and Aran.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1092.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1092/): 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).