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# חֹרִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2753

**Hori** — 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

Hori [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2753/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹרִי⁴: adj. n.pr.gent. pers. adj. gent. n.pr.gent. n.pr.pers.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2753/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj., usually n.pr.gent. et pers. (prob. = cave-dweller, so Thes Rob-Ges. MV VB; v. also W Max Müll Asien u. Europa 136, 155, 156)— adj. gent. שֵׂעִיר הַח׳ Gn 36:20 Seir the Horite (P); read הַח׳ also v 2 for MT הַחִוִּי. n.pr.gent. always c. art.; usually sg. coll. הַחֹרִי, ancient inhabitants of land of Edom Gn 14:6 (בְּהַרֲרָם שֵׂעִיר); in P called בְּנֵי שֵׂעִיר בְּאֶרֶץ אֱדוֹם 36:21 (vid. v 20); cf. v 29, 30; according to Dt 2:12 (where alone הַחֹרִים), v 22 they were driven out by sons of Esau (yet v. Gn 36l. c. and Di); 𝔊 ὁ Χορραιος, οἱ Χορραιοι, (Gn 36:29, 30 Χορρ(ε)ι). n.pr.pers.m. חֹרִי an Edomite Gn 36:22 = 1 Ch 1:39; 𝔊 Χορρ(ε)ι. חוֹרי a Simeonite Nu 13:5, but 𝔊 Σουρ(ε)ι, 𝔊L Σουδρι.—i. חֹרִי v. sub i. חור.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (21 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hori (1); \[were\] Hori (1); of Hori (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 13:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.5/#tree)

לְמַטֵּ֣ה שִׁמְע֔וֹן שָׁפָ֖ט בֶּן־חוֹרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* for the.tribe of.Simeon Shaphat the.son of.Hori

*JPS 1917:* Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.

[1 Chronicles 1:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.39/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֥י לוֹטָ֖ן חֹרִ֣י וְהוֹמָ֑ם וַאֲח֥וֹת לוֹטָ֖ן תִּמְנָֽע׃ס

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Lotan \[were\].Hori and Homam and.\[was\] the.sister of.Lotan Timna

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Lotan: Hori, and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2753.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2753/): 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).