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# יַחַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3189

**Jahath** — used 8 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

Jahath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3189/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַ֫חַת: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3189/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (perhaps for יַחְתֶּה, יַחֲתֶה he (God) will snatch up)— grandson of Judah 1 Ch 4:2(×2), 𝔊 Ιεθ, 𝔊L Ιαωθ. Levites: 1 Ch 6:5, 28, 𝔊 Ιεεθ, 𝔊L Ιααθ. 1 Ch 23:10, 11, 𝔊 Ιεθ, 𝔊L Ιειηλ. 1 Ch 24:22, 𝔊 Ιναθ, 𝔊L Ιααθ. 2 Ch 34:12, 𝔊 Ιε(θ), 𝔊L Ιαεθ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 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: Jahath (6); \[were\] Jahath (1); of Jahath (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.28/#tree)

בֶּן־יַ֥חַת בֶּן־גֵּרְשֹׁ֖ם בֶּן־לֵוִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* the.son of.Jahath the.son of.Gershom the.son of.Levi

*JPS 1917:* the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

[1 Chronicles 24:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.22/#tree)

לַיִּצְהָרִ֣י שְׁלֹמ֔וֹת לִבְנֵ֥י שְׁלֹמ֖וֹת יָֽחַת׃

*Word for word:* for the Izharite\[s\] Shelomoth of the.sons of.Shelomoth Jahath

*JPS 1917:* Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3189.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3189/): 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).