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# זָכוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2138

**male** — used 4 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

male [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2138/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זָכוּר: n.m. male [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2138/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. male, i.q. זָכָר, but only c. sf.;—coll. כָּל־זְכוּרְךָ Ex 23:17 = 34:23 (both JE), = Dt 16:16, of attendance at feasts; כָּל־זְכוּרָהּ (of city refusing terms of peace) Dt 20:13 commanded to be slain (opp. הַנָּשִׁים, הַטַּף, etc., v 14).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: male (4).

## In the verses

[Exodus 23:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.17/#tree)

שָׁלֹ֥שׁ פְּעָמִ֖ים בַּשָּׁנָ֑ה יֵרָאֶה֙ כָּל־זְכ֣וּרְךָ֔ אֶל־פְּנֵ֖י הָאָדֹ֥ן ׀ יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* three times in the year he.will.present.himself every male your to the.presence of the.lord Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

[Exodus 34:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.23/#tree)

שָׁלֹ֥שׁ פְּעָמִ֖ים בַּשָּׁנָ֑ה יֵרָאֶה֙ כָּל־זְכ֣וּרְךָ֔ אֶת־פְּנֵ֛י הָֽאָדֹ֥ן ׀ יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* three times in the year he.will.present.himself every male your with the.presence of the.lord Yahweh the.God of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2138/): 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).