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# חֶלְדַּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2469

**Heldai** — 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

Heldai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2469/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶלְדַּי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2469/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. one of David’s heroes 1 Ch 27:15 (= חֵלֶד 11:30 = חֵלֶב 2 S 23:29) 𝔊 Χολδεια (—δαι), 𝔊L Ολδια. a returned exile Zc 6:10 (om. 𝔊) = חֵלֶם v 14.

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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 27:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.15/#tree)

הַשְּׁנֵ֤ים עָשָׂר֙ לִשְׁנֵ֣ים עָשָׂ֣ר הַחֹ֔דֶשׁ חֶלְדַּ֥י הַנְּטוֹפָתִ֖י לְעָתְנִיאֵ֑ל וְעַל֙ מַחֲלֻקְתּ֔וֹ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָ֖ה אָֽלֶף׃פ

*Word for word:* the.two plus ten for two.plus ten the month Heldai the Netophathite of Othniel and.\[were\] with division his twenty and four thousand

*JPS 1917:* The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

[Zechariah 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.10/#tree)

לָק֙וֹחַ֙ מֵאֵ֣ת הַגּוֹלָ֔ה מֵחֶלְדַּ֕י וּמֵאֵ֥ת טוֹבִיָּ֖ה וּמֵאֵ֣ת יְדַֽעְיָ֑ה וּבָאתָ֤ אַתָּה֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא וּבָ֗אתָ בֵּ֚ית יֹאשִׁיָּ֣ה בֶן־צְפַנְיָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֖אוּ מִבָּבֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* take from with the exile\[s\] from Heldai and from with Tobiah and from with Jedaiah and you.will.go you on the day (the) that and you.will.go the.house Josiah the.son of.Zephaniah who they.have.come from Babylon

*JPS 1917:* 'Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, that are come from Babylon; and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2469.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2469/): 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).