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# יוּכַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3116

**Jucal** — 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

Jucal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3116/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְהוּכַל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3116/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. 𝔊 Ἰωαχαλ (Codd. have ζ, χ, ς, for λ) (prob. contr. from יהויוכל, י׳ is able) a courtier of king Zedekiah, יְהוּ׳ Je 37:3 = יוּ׳ 38:1.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 38:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.1/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֞ע שְׁפַטְיָ֣ה בֶן־מַתָּ֗ן וּגְדַלְיָ֙הוּ֙ בֶּן־פַּשְׁח֔וּר וְיוּכַל֙ בֶּן־שֶׁ֣לֶמְיָ֔הוּ וּפַשְׁח֖וּר בֶּן־מַלְכִּיָּ֑ה אֶ֨ת־הַדְּבָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֧ר יִרְמְיָ֛הוּ מְדַבֵּ֥ר אֶל־כָּל־הָעָ֖ם לֵאמֹֽר׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.heard Shephatiah the.son of.Mattan and Gedaliah the.son of.Pashhur and Jucal the.son of.Shelemiah and Pashhur the.son of.Malkijah (et) the words which Jeremiah \[was\].speaking to all the people (cmp)

*JPS 1917:* And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke unto all the people, saying:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3116.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3116/): 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).