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# חֻלְדָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2468

**Huldah** — 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

Huldah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2468/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֻלְדָּה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2468/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. prophetess, Josiah’s time, 2 K 22:14 = 2 Ch 34:22, 𝔊 Ολδα.

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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 34:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.22/#tree)

וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ חִלְקִיָּ֜הוּ וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ אֶל־חֻלְדָּ֨ה הַנְּבִיאָ֜ה אֵ֣שֶׁת ׀ שַׁלֻּ֣ם בֶּן־תָּקְהַ֗ת בֶּן־חַסְרָה֙ שׁוֹמֵ֣ר הַבְּגָדִ֔ים וְהִ֛יא יוֹשֶׁ֥בֶת בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם בַּמִּשְׁנֶ֑ה וַיְדַבְּר֥וּ אֵלֶ֖יהָ כָּזֹֽאת׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.went Hilkiah and.\[those\] whom the king to Huldah the prophetess the.wife of.Shallum the.son of.Tokhath the.son of.Hasrah the.keeper of the.garments and she \[was\].dwelling in Jerusalem in the.second district and they.spoke to her like this

*JPS 1917:* So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe — now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter — and they spoke to her to that effect.

[2 Kings 22:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.22.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.22.14/#tree)

וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ חִלְקִיָּ֣הוּ הַ֠כֹּהֵן וַאֲחִיקָ֨ם וְעַכְבּ֜וֹר וְשָׁפָ֣ן וַעֲשָׂיָ֗ה אֶל־חֻלְדָּ֨ה הַנְּבִיאָ֜ה אֵ֣שֶׁת ׀ שַׁלֻּ֣ם בֶּן־תִּקְוָ֗ה בֶּן־חַרְחַס֙ שֹׁמֵ֣ר הַבְּגָדִ֔ים וְהִ֛יא יֹשֶׁ֥בֶת בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם בַּמִּשְׁנֶ֑ה וַֽיְדַבְּר֖וּ אֵלֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.went Hilkiah the priest and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asaiah to Huldah the prophetess the.wife of.Shallum the.son of.Tikvah the.son of.Harhas \[the.one.who\].kept the garments and she \[was\].dwelling in Jerusalem in the.second district and they.spoke to her

*JPS 1917:* So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe — now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter — and they spoke with her.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2468.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2468/): 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).