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# יִבְחָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2984

**Ibhar** — 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

Ibhar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2984/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִבְחָר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2984/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (He (Ēl or י׳) chooses) son of David 2 S 5:15 1 Ch 3:6; 14:5.

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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ibhar (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 3:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.6/#tree)

וְיִבְחָ֥ר וֶאֱלִישָׁמָ֖ע וֶאֱלִיפָֽלֶט׃

*Word for word:* and Ibhar and Elishama and Eliphelet

*JPS 1917:* and Ibhar, and Elishama, and Eliphelet;

[1 Chronicles 14:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.14.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.14.5/#tree)

וְיִבְחָ֥ר וֶאֱלִישׁ֖וּעַ וְאֶלְפָּֽלֶט׃

*Word for word:* and Ibhar and Elishua and Elpelet

*JPS 1917:* and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpelet;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2984.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2984/): 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).