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# זַבְדִּיאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2068

**Zabdiel** — 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

Zabdiel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2068/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זַבְדִּיאֵל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2068/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my gift is God)— father of one of David’s officers 1 Ch 27:2. a prominent Hebrew in Nehemiah’s time Ne 11:14.

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 (1 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: Zabdiel (1); of Zabdiel (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 11:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.14/#tree)

וַאֲחֵיהֶם֙ גִּבּ֣וֹרֵי חַ֔יִל מֵאָ֖ה עֶשְׂרִ֣ים וּשְׁמֹנָ֑ה וּפָקִ֣יד עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם זַבְדִּיאֵ֖ל בֶּן־הַגְּדוֹלִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and brothers their mighty.\[men\] of.strength one.hundred twenty and eight and.\[was\] overseer over them Zabdiel the.son of the.great.\[ones\]

*JPS 1917:* and their brethren, mighty men of valour, a hundred twenty and eight; and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of Haggedolim.

[1 Chronicles 27:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.2/#tree)

עַ֞ל הַמַּחֲלֹ֤קֶת הָרִֽאשׁוֹנָה֙ לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן יָֽשָׁבְעָ֖ם בֶּן־זַבְדִּיאֵ֑ל וְעַל֙ מַֽחֲלֻקְתּ֔וֹ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָ֖ה אָֽלֶף׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].over the division (the) first for the month (the) first Jashobeam the.son of.Zabdiel and.\[were\] with division his twenty and four thousand

*JPS 1917:* Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel; and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2068.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2068/): 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).