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# חֶבֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2268

**Heber** — used 11 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

Heber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2268/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶ֫בֶר²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2268/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. חֶבֶר (𝔊 Χαβερ) the Kenite, husband of Jael Ju 4:11, 17(×2), 21; 5:24. a man of Asher חִבֶר Gn 46:17 (P) 𝔊 Χοβωρ 1 Ch 7:31, 32 𝔊 Χαβερ 𝔊L Ιεχοβερ; חֵבֶר Nu 26:45 𝔊 Χοβερ; on poss. identif. with Ḫabiri of Tel el Amarna v. Jastr JBL 1892, xi. 118 ff. 1893, xii. 61 ff. חֶבֶר name in Judah 1 Ch 4:18 𝔊 Αβεισα, 𝔊L Αβερ. חָ֑בֶר a Benjamite 1 Ch 8:17 𝔊 Αβαρ, 𝔊L Αβερ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Heber (6); of Heber (4); \[were\] Heber (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 8:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.17/#tree)

וּזְבַדְיָ֥ה וּמְשֻׁלָּ֖ם וְחִזְקִ֥י וָחָֽבֶר׃

*Word for word:* and Zebadiah and Meshullam and Hizki and Heber

*JPS 1917:* And Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hizki, and Heber;

[1 Chronicles 7:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.31/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֣י בְרִיעָ֔ה חֶ֖בֶר וּמַלְכִּיאֵ֑ל ה֖וּא אֲבִ֥י בִרְזָֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Beriah \[were\].Heber and Malkiel he \[was\].the.father Birzaith

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2268.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2268/): 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).