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# חוּשַׁי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2365

**Hushai** — used 14 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

Hushai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2365/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חוּשַׁי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2365/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. ח׳ הָאַרְכִּי 2 S 15:32 so 17:5, 14, called רֵעֶה דוד 15:37 friend of David, so 16:16 a; cf. 16:16b, 17, 18 1 Ch 27:33; also 1 S 17:6, 7, 8, 15 1 K 4:16 father of one of Solomon’s officers.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hushai (12); of Hushai (2).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 4:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.16/#tree)

בַּֽעֲנָא֙ בֶּן־חוּשָׁ֔י בְּאָשֵׁ֖ר וּבְעָלֽוֹת׃ס

*Word for word:* Baana the.son of.Hushai in Asher and Bealoth

*JPS 1917:* Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

[2 Samuel 15:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.15.37/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֥א חוּשַׁ֛י רֵעֶ֥ה דָוִ֖ד הָעִ֑יר וְאַבְשָׁלֹ֔ם יָבֹ֖א יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.came Hushai the.friend of.David the city and Absalom he.came Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* So Hushai David's friend came into the city; and Absalom was at the point of coming into Jerusalem.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2365.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2365/): 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).