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# חֵלֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2494

**Helem. Compare** — 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

Helem. Compare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2494/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֵ֫לֶם: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2494/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (strength)—a returned exile Zc 6:14 = חֶלְדַּי v 10.

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 (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Zechariah 6:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.14/#tree)

וְהָעֲטָרֹ֗ת תִּֽהְיֶה֙ לְחֵ֙לֶם֙ וּלְטוֹבִיָּ֣ה וְלִידַֽעְיָ֔ה וּלְחֵ֖ן בֶּן־צְפַנְיָ֑ה לְזִכָּר֖וֹן בְּהֵיכַ֥ל יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the crown(s) it.will.be to Helem and to Tobiah and to Jedaiah and to Hen the.son of.Zephaniah to a.memorial in the.temple of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, as a memorial in the temple of the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2494.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2494/): 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).