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# יְוָנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3125

**Jevanite** — 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

Jevanite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3125/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְוָנִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3125/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. only c. art. as n.pr.gent.: וּבְנֵי יְרוּשָׁלַםִ מְכַרְתֶּם לִבְנֵי הַיְּוָנִ֑ים Jo 4:6 (𝔊 Ἕλληνες) and the sons of Jerusalem ye have sold to the sons of the Ionians (cf. יָוָן Ez 27:13).—Vid. Staib.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Joel 4:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.6/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֤י יְהוּדָה֙ וּבְנֵ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם מְכַרְתֶּ֖ם לִבְנֵ֣י הַיְּוָנִ֑ים לְמַ֥עַן הַרְחִיקָ֖ם מֵעַ֥ל גְּבוּלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the.people of.Judah and the.people of.Jerusalem you.sold to the.people of the.Greeks so.as to remove.them.far.away from on territory their.own

*JPS 1917:* the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of Jevanim, that ye might remove them far from their border;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3125.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3125/): 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).