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# זַתּוּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2240

**Zattu** — 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

Zattu [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2240/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זַתּוּא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2240/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. head of a family of returned exiles Ezr 2:8 = Ne 7:13; cf. also Ezr 10:27 Ne 10:15.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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 Zattu (3); Zattu (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 7:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.13/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י זַתּ֔וּא שְׁמֹנֶ֥ה מֵא֖וֹת אַרְבָּעִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Zattu eight hundred(s) forty and five

*JPS 1917:* The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.

[Ezra 2:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.8/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י זַתּ֔וּא תְּשַׁ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת וְאַרְבָּעִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Zattu nine hundred(s) and forty and five

*JPS 1917:* The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2240/): 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).