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# חֹרֹנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2772

**Horonite** — 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

Horonite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2772/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חֹרֹנִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2772/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. v. id.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (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: Horonite (3).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 13:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.28/#tree)

וּמִבְּנֵ֨י יוֹיָדָ֤ע בֶּן־אֶלְיָשִׁיב֙ הַכֹּהֵ֣ן הַגָּד֔וֹל חָתָ֖ן לְסַנְבַלַּ֣ט הַחֹרֹנִ֑י וָאַבְרִיחֵ֖הוּ מֵעָלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and one of.the.sons of.Joiada the.son of.Eliashib the priest (the) great \[was\].a.son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite and I drove.him.away from with me

*JPS 1917:* And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.

[Nehemiah 2:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.10/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֞ע סַנְבַלַּ֣ט הַחֹרֹנִ֗י וְטֽוֹבִיָּה֙ הָעֶ֣בֶד הָֽעַמֹּנִ֔י וַיֵּ֥רַע לָהֶ֖ם רָעָ֣ה גְדֹלָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֥א אָדָ֔ם לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ טוֹבָ֖ה לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.heard Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant the Ammonite and it.was.displeasing to them displeasure great (cmp) he.had.come someone to seek good for the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, for that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2772.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2772/): 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).