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# דְּלָיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Dalaiah** — used 3 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

Dalaiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b8_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּלָיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b8_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Yah(u) hath drawn)— דְּלָיָהוּ, a priest, contemp. David, 1 Ch 24:18. a prince of Judah, contemp. Jerem Je 36:12, 25. דְּלָיָה, head of a family contemp. with Zerubb. Ezr 2:60 = Ne 7:62. descendant of Zerubb. 1 Ch 3:24. father of contemp. of Neh. 6:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Delaiah (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 24:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.18/#tree)

לִדְלָיָ֙הוּ֙ שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֔ים לְמַֽעַזְיָ֖הוּ אַרְבָּעָ֥ה וְעֶשְׂרִֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* to Delaiah three and twenty to Maaziah four and twenty

*JPS 1917:* the three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah.

[Jeremiah 36:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.25/#tree)

וְגַם֩ אֶלְנָתָ֨ן וּדְלָיָ֤הוּ וּגְמַרְיָ֙הוּ֙ הִפְגִּ֣עוּ בַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לְבִלְתִּ֥י שְׂרֹ֖ף אֶת־הַמְּגִלָּ֑ה וְלֹ֥א שָׁמַ֖ע אֲלֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and also Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah they.had.made.entreaty with the king to not to.burn (et) the scroll and not he.listened to them

*JPS 1917:* Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had entreated the king not to burn the roll; but he would not hear them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b8_5d9_5b8_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b8_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).