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# בְּצַלְאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1212

**Bezaleel** — used 9 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

Bezaleel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1212/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּצַלְאֵל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1212/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (in the shadow (protection) of Ēl; cf. cuneif. Sil-Bêl, a king of Gaza, COT Jos 11:22)— a skilled artisan of tribe of Judah Ex 31:2; 35:30; 36:1, 2; 37:1; 38:22 (all P) 1 Ch 2:20 2 Ch 1:5. an Israelite Ezr 10:30.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Bezalel (9).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.20/#tree)

וְחוּר֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־אוּרִ֔י וְאוּרִ֖י הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־בְּצַלְאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and Hur he.fathered (et) Uri and Uri he.fathered (et) Bezalel

*JPS 1917:* And Hur begot Uri, and Uri begot Bezalel.

[Exodus 31:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.31.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.31.2/#tree)

רְאֵ֖ה קָרָ֣אתִֽי בְשֵׁ֑ם בְּצַלְאֵ֛ל בֶּן־אוּרִ֥י בֶן־ח֖וּר לְמַטֵּ֥ה יְהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* see I.have.called by name Bezalel the.son of.Uri the.son of.Hur of the.tribe of.Judah

*JPS 1917:* 'See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1212.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1212/): 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).