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# טֶלֶם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2928

**Telem** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Telem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2928/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טֶ֫לֶם: n.pr.loc. pers. n.pr.loc. n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2928/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. et pers. n.pr.loc. in the Negeb of Judah, Jos 15:24 = טלאים 1 S 15:4, read perhaps טֵלָאם We Dr. We reads טֵלָם also for חוילה 1 S 15:7, cf. Dr. n.pr.m. one of the porters Ezr 10:24.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Telem (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 10:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.24/#tree)

וּמִן־הַמְשֹׁרְרִ֖ים אֶלְיָשִׁ֑יב וּמִן־הַשֹּׁ֣עֲרִ֔ים שַׁלֻּ֥ם וָטֶ֖לֶם וְאוּרִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* and of the singers Eliashib and of the gatekeepers Shallum and Telem and Uri

*JPS 1917:* And of the singers: Eliashib; and of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2928.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2928/): 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).