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# חׇפְנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2652

**Hophni** — used 5 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

Hophni [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2652/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָפְנִי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2652/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Sab. n.pr. חפן Hal No. 14)—one of Eli’s two sons 1 S 1:3; 2:34; 4:4, 11, 17.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hophni (5).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.4.11/#tree)

וַאֲר֥וֹן אֱלֹהִ֖ים נִלְקָ֑ח וּשְׁנֵ֤י בְנֵֽי־עֵלִי֙ מֵ֔תוּ חָפְנִ֖י וּפִֽינְחָֽס׃

*Word for word:* and the.ark of.God it.was.taken and the.two the.sons of.Eli they.died Hophni and Phinehas

*JPS 1917:* And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.

[1 Samuel 2:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.34/#tree)

וְזֶה־לְּךָ֣ הָא֗וֹת אֲשֶׁ֤ר יָבֹא֙ אֶל־שְׁנֵ֣י בָנֶ֔יךָ אֶל־חָפְנִ֖י וּפִֽינְחָ֑ס בְּי֥וֹם אֶחָ֖ד יָמ֥וּתוּ שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and this for you \[will be\].the.sign which it.will.come to the.two sons your to Hophni and Phinehas on a.day one they.will.die both of.them

*JPS 1917:* And this shall be the sign unto thee, that which shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2652.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2652/): 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).