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# חֵלֶב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2460

**Heleb** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Heleb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2460/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵ֫לֶב²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2460/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Sab. n.pr.m. חֿלבן = the crafty one Sab.Denkm. 27. 28)—one of David’s heroes 2 S 23:29 (but read חלד(י), v. Dr), 𝔊 Εσθαει, A Αλαφ, 𝔊L Αλλαν (= חֵלֶד 1 Ch 11:30 = חֶלְדַּי 27:15).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Heleb (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 23:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.29/#tree)

חֵ֥לֶב בֶּֽן־בַּעֲנָ֖ה הַנְּטֹפָתִ֑יס אִתַּי֙ בֶּן־רִיבַ֔י מִגִּבְעַ֖ת בְּנֵ֥י בִנְיָמִֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* Heleb the.son of.Baanah the Netophathite Ittai the.son of.Ribai from Gibeah of.the.descendants of.Benjamin

*JPS 1917:* Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2460.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2460/): 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).