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# יִגְאָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3008

**Igal** — 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

Igal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3008/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִגְאָל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3008/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (He redeems)— one of the spies Nu 13:7. one of David’s heroes 2 S 23:36. descendant of Zerubbabel 1 Ch 3:22.

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 (5 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 13:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.7/#tree)

לְמַטֵּ֣ה יִשָּׂשכָ֔ר יִגְאָ֖ל בֶּן־יוֹסֵֽף׃

*Word for word:* for the.tribe of.Issachar Igal the.son of.Joseph

*JPS 1917:* Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.

[2 Samuel 23:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.36/#tree)

יִגְאָ֤ל בֶּן־נָתָן֙ מִצֹּבָ֔הס בָּנִ֖י הַגָּדִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Igal the.son of.Nathan from Zobah Bani the Gadite

*JPS 1917:* Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3008.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3008/): 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).