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# יְרַחְמְאֵלִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3397

**the Negeb of the Yeraḥmeelites** — used 2 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

the Negeb of the Yeraḥmeelites [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3397/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְרַחְמְאֵלִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3397/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. (earlier than fore-going; as tribal name bef. n.pr.m. \[For radical view of relations of יְרַח׳, (with many text. emendations), v. CheEncy. Bib.Jerachm.\]);—הַיְּר׳ as subst. coll., נֶגֶב היר׳ 1 S 27:10 the Negeb of the Yeraḥmeelites (in S. Judah), (νότον) Ιεσμεγα, A Ισραμηλει, 𝔊L Αερμων; עָרֵי היר׳ 30:29, τοῦ Ισραηλ, A Ιεραμηλει (cf. 1 supr., and GrayProp. N. 214, 265, 307).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the Jerahmeelite\[s\] (2).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 30:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.30.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.30.29/#tree)

וְלַאֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּרָכָ֗ל וְלַֽאֲשֶׁר֙ בְּעָרֵ֣י הַיְּרַחְמְאֵלִ֔י וְלַאֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּעָרֵ֥י הַקֵּינִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and for.\[those\] who \[were\].in Racal and for.\[those\] who \[were\].in the.cities of the.Jerahmeelite\[s\] and for.\[those\] who \[were\].in the.cities of the.Kenite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and to them that were in Racal, and to them that were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them that were in the cities of the Kenites;

[1 Samuel 27:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.27.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.27.10/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אָכִ֔ישׁ אַל־פְּשַׁטְתֶּ֖ם הַיּ֑וֹם וַיֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִ֗ד עַל־נֶ֤גֶב יְהוּדָה֙ וְעַל־נֶ֣גֶב הַיַּרְחְמְאֵלִ֔י וְאֶל־נֶ֖גֶב הַקֵּינִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Achish not did.you.make.a.raid this day and he.said David on the.Negev of.Judah and on the.Negev of the.Jerahmeelite\[s\] and against the.Negev of the.Kenite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And Achish said: 'Whither have ye made a raid to-day?' And David said: 'Against the South of Judah, and against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3397.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3397/): 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).