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# יַרְחָע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3398

**Jarha** — 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

Jarha [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3398/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַרְחָע: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3398/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. an Egyptian slave 1 Ch 2:34, 35; 𝔊 Ιωχηλ, 𝔊L Ιερεε.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jarha (1); \[was\] Jarha (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.34/#tree)

וְלֹֽא־הָיָ֧ה לְשֵׁשָׁ֛ן בָּנִ֖ים כִּ֣י אִם־בָּנ֑וֹת וּלְשֵׁשָׁ֛ן עֶ֥בֶד מִצְרִ֖י וּשְׁמ֥וֹ יַרְחָֽע׃

*Word for word:* and not it.belonged to Sheshan sons (dm) (if) daughters and.\[belonged\] to Sheshan a.slave Egyptian and name his \[was\].Jarha

*JPS 1917:* Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.

[1 Chronicles 2:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.35/#tree)

וַיִּתֵּ֨ן שֵׁשָׁ֧ן אֶת־בִּתּ֛וֹ לְיַרְחָ֥ע עַבְדּ֖וֹ לְאִשָּׁ֑ה וַתֵּ֥לֶד ל֖וֹ אֶת־עַתָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.gave Sheshan (et) daughter his to Jarha slave his to a.wife and she.bore to him (et) Attai

*JPS 1917:* So Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bore him Attai.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3398.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3398/): 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).