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# יַבְנֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2996

**Jabneh** — 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

Jabneh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2996/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַבְנֶה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2996/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (he causeth to build) a Philistine city 2 Ch 26:6 𝔊L Ἰαβνη (B Ἀβεννηρ) cf. Ἰεμναθ 𝔊L Jos 15:46 (A Ἰεμναι); = יַבְנְאֵל 1, q.v.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 26:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.26.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.26.6/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵא֙ וַיִּלָּ֣חֶם בַּפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וַיִּפְרֹ֞ץ אֶת־ח֣וֹמַת גַּ֗ת וְאֵת֙ חוֹמַ֣ת יַבְנֵ֔ה וְאֵ֖ת חוֹמַ֣ת אַשְׁדּ֑וֹד וַיִּבְנֶ֣ה עָרִ֔ים בְּאַשְׁדּ֖וֹד וּבַפְּלִשְׁתִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out and he.fought against the Philistines and he.made.a.breach.in (et) the.wall of.Gath and (et) the.wall of.Jabneh and (et) the.wall of.Ashdod and he.built cities in Ashdod and among the Philistines

*JPS 1917:* And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2996.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/2996/): 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).