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# חָמוּל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2538

**Hamul** — used 3 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

Hamul [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2538/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָמוּל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2538/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (spared);—grandson of Judah Gn 46:12 = 1 Ch 2:5, Nu 26:1; 𝔊 Ιεμουηλ, \[Ι\]αμουηλ.

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 (3 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: Hamul (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.5/#tree)

בְּנֵי־פֶ֖רֶץ חֶצְר֥וֹן וְחָמֽוּל׃ס

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Perez \[were\].Hezron and Hamul

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Perez: Hezron, and Hamul.

[Numbers 26:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.21/#tree)

וַיִּהְי֣וּ בְנֵי־פֶ֔רֶץ לְחֶצְרֹ֕ן מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַֽחֶצְרֹנִ֑י לְחָמ֕וּל מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הֶחָמוּלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.were the.descendants of.Perez of Hezron the.clan of the.Hezronite\[s\] of Hamul the.clan of the.Hamulite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2538.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2538/): 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).