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# גַּחַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1515

**Gahar** — 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

Gahar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1515/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּ֫חַר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1515/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. head of a family of returned exiles Ezr 2:47 בְּנֵי־ג׳ = Ne 7:49 בְּנֵי־גָחַ֑ר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: of Gahar (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.47/#tree)

בְּנֵי־גִדֵּ֥ל בְּנֵי־גַ֖חַר בְּנֵ֥י רְאָיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Giddel the.descendants of.Gahar the.descendants of.Reaiah

*JPS 1917:* the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah;

[Nehemiah 7:49](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.49/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.49/#tree)

בְּנֵי־חָנָ֥ן בְּנֵי־גִדֵּ֖ל בְּנֵי־גָֽחַר׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Hanan the.descendants of.Giddel the.descendants of.Gahar

*JPS 1917:* the children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1515.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1515/): 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).