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# זַכַּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2140

**Zaccai** — 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

Zaccai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2140/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זַכַּי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2140/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. head of a family of returned exiles, זַכָּ֔י Ezr 2:9 (𝔊 Ζακχου, 𝔊L Ζακχαιου) = Ne 7:14 (𝔊 Ζαθου, A Ζακχουρ, 𝔊L Ζακχαιου); perhaps = זַכַּי Ne 3:20 q.v.; 𝔊 Ζαβ(ρ)ου, 𝔊L Ραββαι. Nes (privately) suggests that this might be abbrev. from זכריה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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: of Zaccai (3).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.9/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י זַכָּ֔י שְׁבַ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת וְשִׁשִּֽׁים׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Zaccai seven hundred(s) and sixty

*JPS 1917:* The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

[Nehemiah 7:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.14/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י זַכָּ֔י שְׁבַ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת וְשִׁשִּֽׁים׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Zaccai seven hundred(s) and sixty

*JPS 1917:* The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2140.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2140/): 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).