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# גִּלֲלַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1562

**Gilalai** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Gilalai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1562/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּלֲלִי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1562/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a Levitical musician Ne 12:36.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Gilalai (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 12:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.36/#tree)

וְֽאֶחָ֡יו שְֽׁמַעְיָ֡ה וַעֲזַרְאֵ֡ל מִֽלֲלַ֡י גִּֽלֲלַ֡י מָעַ֞י נְתַנְאֵ֤ל וִֽיהוּדָה֙ חֲנָ֔נִי בִּכְלֵי־שִׁ֥יר דָּוִ֖יד אִ֣ישׁ הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וְעֶזְרָ֥א הַסּוֹפֵ֖ר לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and brothers his Shemaiah and Azarel Milalai Gilalai Maai Nethanel and Judah Hanani with the.instruments of.(the).song of.David the.man of.(the) God and Ezra the scribe \[was\] before them

*JPS 1917:* and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1562.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1562/): 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).