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# חִירָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2437

**Hirah** — 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

Hirah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2437/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** v. sub I. חור.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (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: Hirah (1); \[was\] Hirah (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 38:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.1/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי֙ בָּעֵ֣ת הַהִ֔וא וַיֵּ֥רֶד יְהוּדָ֖ה מֵאֵ֣ת אֶחָ֑יו וַיֵּ֛ט עַד־אִ֥ישׁ עֲדֻלָּמִ֖י וּשְׁמ֥וֹ חִירָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was at the time (the) that and he.went.down Judah from with brothers his and he.turned.aside to a.man an.Adullamite and name his \[was\].Hirah

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

[Genesis 38:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.12/#tree)

וַיִּרְבּוּ֙ הַיָּמִ֔ים וַתָּ֖מָת בַּת־שׁ֣וּעַ אֵֽשֶׁת־יְהוּדָ֑ה וַיִּנָּ֣חֶם יְהוּדָ֗ה וַיַּ֜עַל עַל־גֹּֽזֲזֵ֤י צֹאנוֹ֙ ה֗וּא וְחִירָ֛ה רֵעֵ֥הוּ הָעֲדֻלָּמִ֖י תִּמְנָֽתָה׃

*Word for word:* and they.increased the days and she.died the.daughter of.Shua the.wife of.Judah and he.was.comforted Judah and he.went.up to the.shearers his.sheep his he and Hirah friend his the Adullamite to Timnah

*JPS 1917:* And in process of time Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2437/): 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).