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# יוֹכֶבֶד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3115

**Jochebed** — used 2 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

Jochebed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3115/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יוֹכֶ֫בֶד: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3115/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. 𝔊 Ἰωχαβεδ (י׳ is glory; cf. Ph. כבדמלקרת) daughter of Levi, wife of Amram and mother of Moses Ex 6:20 Nu 26:59 (both P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jochebed (1); \[was\] Jochebed (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 26:59](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.59/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.59/#tree)

וְשֵׁ֣ם ׀ אֵ֣שֶׁת עַמְרָ֗ם יוֹכֶ֙בֶד֙ בַּת־לֵוִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֨ר יָלְדָ֥ה אֹתָ֛הּ לְלֵוִ֖י בְּמִצְרָ֑יִם וַתֵּ֣לֶד לְעַמְרָ֗ם אֶֽת־אַהֲרֹן֙ וְאֶת־מֹשֶׁ֔ה וְאֵ֖ת מִרְיָ֥ם אֲחֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the.name of.the.wife of.Amram \[was\].Jochebed the.daughter of.Levi whom someone.bore her to Levi in Egypt and she.bore to Amram (et) Aaron and (et) Moses and (et) Miriam sister their

*JPS 1917:* And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

[Exodus 6:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.6.20/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֨ח עַמְרָ֜ם אֶת־יוֹכֶ֤בֶד דֹּֽדָתוֹ֙ ל֣וֹ לְאִשָּׁ֔ה וַתֵּ֣לֶד ל֔וֹ אֶֽת־אַהֲרֹ֖ן וְאֶת־מֹשֶׁ֑ה וּשְׁנֵי֙ חַיֵּ֣י עַמְרָ֔ם שֶׁ֧בַע וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֛ים וּמְאַ֖ת שָׁנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Amram (et) Jochebed sister his.father's for himself to a.wife and she.bore to him (et) Aaron and (et) Moses and the.years of.the.life of.Amram \[were\].seven and thirty and one.hundred year\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And Amram took him Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty and seven years.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3115.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3115/): 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).