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# זֵתָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2241

**Zetham** — 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

Zetham [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2241/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זֵתָם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2241/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (sub זית in Thes, = foregoing)—a Levite (Gershonite) 1 Ch 23:8, appar. son of לַעְדָּן and brother of יְחִיאֵל and יוֹאֵל; 26:22 appar. grandson of לַעְדָּן, and son of יְחִיאֵלִי (expressly called brother of יוֹאֵל); 𝔊 Ζεθομ, Ζοθομ, 𝔊L Ζηθαν.

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 (2 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: Zetham (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 23:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.8/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י לַעְדָּ֗ן הָרֹ֧אשׁ יְחִיאֵ֛ל וְזֵתָ֥ם וְיוֹאֵ֖ל שְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Ladan \[were\].the chief Jehiel and Zetham and Joel three

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

[1 Chronicles 26:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.22/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י יְחִֽיאֵלִ֑י זֵתָם֙ וְיוֹאֵ֣ל אָחִ֔יו עַל־אֹצְר֖וֹת בֵּ֥ית יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Jehieli Zetham and Joel brother his \[were\].over the.storehouses of.the.house of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasuries of the house of the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2241.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2241/): 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).