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# חֶלְקָי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2517

**Helkai** — 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

Helkai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2517/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶלְקָ֑י: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2517/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. priest, time of Joiakim son of Jeshua, Ne 12:15 (perhaps abbrev. for חלקיהו, (q.v.), 𝔊L Χελκιας (B om.)

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 (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 12:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.15/#tree)

לְחָרִ֣ם עַדְנָ֔א לִמְרָי֖וֹת חֶלְקָֽי׃

*Word for word:* of Harim Adna of Meraioth Helkai

*JPS 1917:* of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2517.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2517/): 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).