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# זִמְרָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2175

**Zimran** — 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

Zimran [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2175/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זִמְרָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2175/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Abraham & Keturah, 𝔊 Ζε(μ)βραν Gn 25:2 and 1 Ch 1:32 (𝔊L here Ζεμραμ). On locality referred to v. Di.

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: Zimran (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 25:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.2/#tree)

וַתֵּ֣לֶד ל֗וֹ אֶת־זִמְרָן֙ וְאֶת־יָקְשָׁ֔ן וְאֶת־מְדָ֖ן וְאֶת־מִדְיָ֑ן וְאֶת־יִשְׁבָּ֖ק וְאֶת־שֽׁוּחַ׃

*Word for word:* and she.bore to him (et) Zimran and (et) Jokshan and (et) Medan and (et) Midian and (et) Ishbak and (et) Shuah

*JPS 1917:* And she bore him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

[1 Chronicles 1:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.32/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֨י קְטוּרָ֜ה פִּילֶ֣גֶשׁ אַבְרָהָ֗ם יָלְדָ֞ה אֶת־זִמְרָ֧ן וְיָקְשָׁ֛ן וּמְדָ֥ן וּמִדְיָ֖ן וְיִשְׁבָּ֣ק וְשׁ֑וּחַ וּבְנֵ֥י יָקְשָׁ֖ן שְׁבָ֥א וּדְדָֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Keturah the.concubine of.Abraham she.bore (et) Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah and the.sons of.Jokshan \[were\].Sheba and Dedan

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2175.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2175/): 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).