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# גְּדַלְיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Gedaliah** — used 26 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

Gedaliah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5d3_5b7_5dc_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּדַלְיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5d3_5b7_5dc_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Yah(u) is great)— governor of Judea = גדליה 2 K 25:22–25 Je 39:14; 40:6–16; 41:1–18; 43:6 (24 times) son of Pashur, one of the chiefs of Jerusalem in the time of Jeremiah Je 38:1. one of the sons of Jeduthun, in the time of David 1 Ch 25:3, 9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Gedaliah (24); \[were\] Gedaliah (1); of Gedaliah (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 41:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.41.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.41.4/#tree)

וַיְהִ֛י בַּיּ֥וֹם הַשֵּׁנִ֖י לְהָמִ֣ית אֶת־גְּדַלְיָ֑הוּ וְאִ֖ישׁ לֹ֥א יָדָֽע׃

*Word for word:* and it.was on the day (the) second of killing (et) Gedaliah and anyone not he.knew

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass the second day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man knew it,

[Jeremiah 40:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.40.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.40.13/#tree)

וְיֽוֹחָנָן֙ בֶּן־קָרֵ֔חַ וְכָל־שָׂרֵ֥י הַחֲיָלִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּשָּׂדֶ֑ה בָּ֥אוּ אֶל־גְּדַלְיָ֖הוּ הַמִּצְפָּֽתָה׃

*Word for word:* and Johanan the.son of.Kareah and all the.commanders of the.armies which \[were\].in the.open country they.came to Gedaliah to (the) Mizpah

*JPS 1917:* Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5d3_5b7_5dc_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b0_5bc_5d3_5b7_5dc_5b0_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/): 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).