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# יְמִינִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1145

**right** — used 13 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

right [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/1145/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְמִינִי²: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/1145/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. from בִּנְיָמִן, abbrev. for בֶּן־יְמִינִי (q.v.);—אֶרֶץ יְמִינִי 1 S 9:4; אִישׁ יְמִינִי 2 S 20:1 Est 2:5; בֶּן־אִישׁ יְמִינִי 1 S 9:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: jaminite (6); a Jaminite (3); jaminites (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 7:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.7.1/#tree)

שִׁגָּי֗וֹן לְדָ֫וִ֥ד אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֥ר לַיהוָ֑ה עַל־דִּבְרֵי־כ֝֗וּשׁ בֶּן־יְמִינִֽי׃

*Word for word:* a.shiggaion of David which he.sang to Yahweh on the.words of.Cush a.Ben- jaminite

*JPS 1917:* Shiggaion of David, which he sang unto the LORD, concerning Cush a Benjamite.

[Esther 2:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.5/#tree)

אִ֣ישׁ יְהוּדִ֔י הָיָ֖ה בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַבִּירָ֑ה וּשְׁמ֣וֹ מָרְדֳּכַ֗י בֶּ֣ן יָאִ֧יר בֶּן־שִׁמְעִ֛י בֶּן־קִ֖ישׁ אִ֥ישׁ יְמִינִֽי׃

*Word for word:* a.man a.Jew he.was in Susa the citadel and name his \[was\].Mordecai the.son of.Jair the.son of.Shimei the.son of.Kish a.man a.Jaminite

*JPS 1917:* There was a certain Jew in Shushan the castle, whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1145.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/1145/): 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).