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# חֲכַלְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2446

**Hachaliah** — 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

Hachaliah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2446/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֲכַלְיָה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2446/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (meaning dub.; perhaps חַכֵּה לְיָהּ wait for Yahweh, √ חכה, so We?)—father of Nehemiah Ne 1:1, 𝔊 Χελκ(ε)ια, 𝔊L Χελκιασ(ου), א A Αχαλια; 10:2 𝔊 Αχελια, A 𝔊L Αχαλια.

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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.2/#tree)

וְעַ֖ל הַחֲתוּמִ֑ים נְחֶמְיָ֧ה הַתִּרְשָׁ֛תָא בֶּן־חֲכַלְיָ֖ה וְצִדְקִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] on the.sealed \[documents\] Nehemiah the governor the.son of.Hacaliah and Zedekiah

*JPS 1917:* Now those that set their seal were: Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zedekiah;

[Nehemiah 1:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.1.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.1.1/#tree)

דִּבְרֵ֥י נְחֶמְיָ֖ה בֶּן־חֲכַלְיָ֑ה וַיְהִ֤י בְחֹֽדֶשׁ־כִּסְלֵיו֙ שְׁנַ֣ת עֶשְׂרִ֔ים וַאֲנִ֥י הָיִ֖יתִי בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן הַבִּירָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.words of.Nehemiah the.son of.Hacaliah and it.was in the.month of.Kislev year twenty and I I.was in Susa the citadel

*JPS 1917:* THE WORDS of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the castle,

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2446/): 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).