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# זִמָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2155

**Zimmah** — 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

Zimmah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2155/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זִמָּה²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2155/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. of several Levites (Gershonites)— 1 Ch 6:5. 1 Ch 6:27. 2 Ch 29:12.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Zimmah (2); Zimmah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.27/#tree)

בֶּן־אֵיתָ֥ן בֶּן־זִמָּ֖ה בֶּן־שִׁמְעִֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Ethan the.son of.Zimmah the.son of.Shimei

*JPS 1917:* the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei;

[1 Chronicles 6:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.5/#tree)

לְֽגֵרְשׁ֑וֹם לִבְנִ֥י בְנ֛וֹ יַ֥חַת בְּנ֖וֹ זִמָּ֥ה בְנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* of Gershom Libni son his Jahath son his Zimmah son his

*JPS 1917:* Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2155.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2155/): 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).