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# יֵצֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3337

**Jezer** — 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

Jezer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3337/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֵ֫צֶר²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3337/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Naphtali Gn 46:24 = 1 Ch 7:13, Nu 26:49 (P).

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 (31 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (27 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 46:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.24/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י נַפְתָּלִ֑י יַחְצְאֵ֥ל וְגוּנִ֖י וְיֵ֥צֶר וְשִׁלֵּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Naphtali Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

[Numbers 26:49](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.49/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.49/#tree)

לְיֵ֕צֶר מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַיִּצְרִ֑י לְשִׁלֵּ֕ם מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשִּׁלֵּמִֽי׃

*Word for word:* of Jezer the.clan of the.Jezerite\[s\] of Shillem the.clan of the.Shillemite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3337.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3337/): 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).