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# זַרְחִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2227

**Zarchite** — used 6 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

Zarchite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2227/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זַרְחִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2227/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. always c. art. as subst. coll. הַזּ׳: from זֶרַח 1:—Jos 7:17(×2)17 (JE), Nu 26:20 (P), cf. לַזּ׳ 1 Ch 27:11, 13. from זֶרַח 4:—Nu 26:13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the Zerahite\[s\] (4); Zerahite\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 26:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.13/#tree)

לְזֶ֕רַח מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַזַּרְחִ֑י לְשָׁא֕וּל מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשָּׁאוּלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* of Zerah the.clan of the.Zerahite\[s\] of Shaul the.clan of the.Shaulite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

[1 Chronicles 27:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.11/#tree)

הַשְּׁמִינִי֙ לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִ֔י סִבְּכַ֥י הַחֻשָׁתִ֖י לַזַּרְחִ֑י וְעַל֙ מַחֲלֻקְתּ֔וֹ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָ֖ה אָֽלֶף׃ס

*Word for word:* \[was\].the eighth for the month (the) eighth Sibbecai the Hushathite of the Zerahite\[s\] and.\[were\] with division his twenty and four thousand

*JPS 1917:* The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2227/): 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).