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# יְטוּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3195

**Jetur** — 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

Jetur [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3195/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְטוּר: n.pr.m. gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3195/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. and gent. (perh. connected etymolog. with טִירָה, v. Gn 25:16)—a ‘son’ of Ishmael Gn 25:15 = 1 Ch 1:31 = tribe with which Reuben, Gad, and half Manasseh made war 1 Ch 5:19; Ἰτουραῖοί τε καὶ Ἄραβες Strabo xvi. 2, 18, Ἰτουραίους JosephAntxiii, 11, 3 ed. Niese; they gave name to their region, which was, substantially, Anti-Lebanon, cf. τῆς Ἰτουραίας καὶ Τραχωνίτιδος χώρας Luke 3:1; on יְטוּר and (later) n.pr.terr. Ituraea, v. especially GASmGeogr.544 ff. and reff.

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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 25:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.15/#tree)

חֲדַ֣ד וְתֵימָ֔א יְט֥וּר נָפִ֖ישׁ וָקֵֽדְמָה׃

*Word for word:* Hadad and Tema Jetur Naphish and Kedemah

*JPS 1917:* Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedem;

[1 Chronicles 1:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.31/#tree)

יְט֥וּר נָפִ֖ישׁ וָקֵ֑דְמָה אֵ֥לֶּה הֵ֖ם בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׁמָעֵֽאל׃ס

*Word for word:* Jetur Naphish and Kedemah these they \[were\].the.sons of.Ishmael

*JPS 1917:* Jetur, Naphish, and Kedem. These are the sons of Ishmael.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3195.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3195/): 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).