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# חֵזִיר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2387

**Hezir** — 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

Hezir [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2387/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵזִיר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2387/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cf. inscr. in RA 1867, pl. 7, DrSm xxiii; Nö ZMG 1886, 162 ‘pointing ֵto avoid offence;’ but Nbr Acad. 1887, Dec. 17 comp. Talm & 𝔗 (חַזּוּרָא, חֵיזוּר, חֲזוּרָא etc.) pomegranate (and apple; Syriac ܚܰܙܘܽܪ, ܚܰܙܘܽܪܳܐ), cf. בְּנֵי רִמּוֹן 2 S 4:2, 5, 9)— a priest of 17th course (assigned to David’s time) 1 Ch 24:15; 𝔊 Χηζειν (16th, v 14), but A Ιεζειρ, 𝔊L Χηζειρ. one of those sealed Ne 10:21; 𝔊 Ηζειρ, 𝔊L Αζηρ.

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 (3 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: Hezir (2).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.21/#tree)

מַגְפִּיעָ֥שׁ מְשֻׁלָּ֖ם חֵזִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* Magpiash Meshullam Hezir

*JPS 1917:* Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir;

[1 Chronicles 24:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.15/#tree)

לְחֵזִיר֙ שִׁבְעָ֣ה עָשָׂ֔ר לְהַפִּצֵּ֖ץ שְׁמוֹנָ֥ה עָשָֽׂר׃

*Word for word:* to Hezir seven- teen to Happizzez eight- teen

*JPS 1917:* the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2387.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2387/): 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).