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# הִלֵּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1985

**Hillel** — 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

Hillel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1985/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הִלֵּל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1985/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (he hath praised; cf. NH n.pr. הִלֵּל, Hillel) father of a judge of Israel Ju 12:13, 15, called הַפִּרְעָתוֹנִי v. פִּרְעָתוֹן.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Hillel (2).

## In the verses

[Judges 12:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.13/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁפֹּ֥ט אַחֲרָ֖יו אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל עַבְדּ֥וֹן בֶּן־הִלֵּ֖ל הַפִּרְעָתוֹנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.judged after him (et) Israel Abdon the.son of.Hillel the Pirathonite

*JPS 1917:* And after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.

[Judges 12:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.15/#tree)

וַיָּ֛מָת עַבְדּ֥וֹן בֶּן־הִלֵּ֖ל הַפִּרְעָתוֹנִ֑י וַיִּקָּבֵ֤ר בְּפִרְעָתוֹן֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ אֶפְרַ֔יִם בְּהַ֖ר הָעֲמָלֵקִֽי׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.died Abdon the.son of.Hillel the Pirathonite and he.was.buried at Pirathon in the.land of.Ephraim in the.hill.country of the.Amalekite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1985.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1985/): 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).