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# חֹסָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2621

**Hosah** — used 4 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

Hosah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2621/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹסָה: n.pr.m. n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2621/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (refuge)—name of one of the Levitical doorkeepers of the temple 1 Ch 16:38; 26:10, 11, 16. n.pr.loc. place in the tribe of Asher Jos 19:29; site unknown; 𝔊 Ιασιφ, A Σουσα, 𝔊L Ωσα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hosah (4).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 26:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.11/#tree)

חִלְקִיָּ֤הוּ הַשֵּׁנִי֙ טְבַלְיָ֣הוּ הַשְּׁלִשִׁ֔י זְכַרְיָ֖הוּ הָרְבִעִ֑י כָּל־בָּנִ֧ים וְאַחִ֛ים לְחֹסָ֖ה שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה עָשָֽׂר׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].Hilkiah the second \[was\].Tebaliah the third \[was\].Zechariah the fourth all \[the\].sons and relatives of Hosah \[were\].thir- teen

*JPS 1917:* Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth; all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.

[1 Chronicles 26:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.26.16/#tree)

לְשֻׁפִּ֤ים וּלְחֹסָה֙ לַֽמַּעֲרָ֔ב עִ֚ם שַׁ֣עַר שַׁלֶּ֔כֶת בַּֽמְסִלָּ֖ה הָעוֹלָ֑ה מִשְׁמָ֖ר לְעֻמַּ֥ת מִשְׁמָֽר׃

*Word for word:* to Shuppim and to Hosah to the west beside the.gate of.Shalleketh on the highway \[which\].goes up guard alongside guard

*JPS 1917:* To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goeth up, ward against ward.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2621.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2621/): 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).