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# חֶצְרוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2696

**Hezron** — used 16 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

Hezron [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2696/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֶצְרוֹן: n.pr.loc. pers. n.pr.loc. n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2696/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. et pers. (cf. Sab. חצֿרן n.pr.loc. vel. trib. HalNo. 651 DHMZMG 1883, 15)— n.pr.loc. 𝔊 Ασωρων, Ασερων, Εσρωμ: חֶצְרוֹן Jos 15:3 place in extreme south of Judah, + אַדָּ֫רָה = חֲצַר־אַדָּר (q.v.) Nu 34:4. קְרִיּוֹת חֶצְרוֹן הִיא חָצוֹר Jos 15:25 another town of Judah in south. n.pr.m. 𝔊 Ασρωμ(ν), Εσρων, etc.: חֶצְרֹן son of Reuben Gn 46:9; Ex 6:14; Nu 26:6 = חֶצְרוֹן 1 Ch 5:3. son of Pereṣ and grandson of Judah Gn 46:12; Nu 26:21 = חֶצְרוֹן Ru 4:18, 19; 1 Ch 2:5, 9, 18, 21, 24(×2), 25; 4:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 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: Hezron (10); of Hezron (5); \[were\] Hezron (1).

## 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.

[Ruth 4:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.4.18/#tree)

וְאֵ֙לֶּה֙ תּוֹלְד֣וֹת פָּ֔רֶץ פֶּ֖רֶץ הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־חֶצְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and these \[are\].the.descendants of.Perez Perez he.fathered (et) Hezron

*JPS 1917:* Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez begot Hezron;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2696/): 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).