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# יֶרַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3392

**Jerah** — 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

Jerah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3392/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יֶ֫רַח²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3392/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. ‘son’ of Joktan, only יָ֑רַח Gn 10:26 (𝔊 Ιαραδ, 𝔊L Ιεραχ) = 1 Ch 1:20 (𝔊L Ιαρε).

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 (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 10:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.26/#tree)

וְיָקְטָ֣ן יָלַ֔ד אֶת־אַלְמוֹדָ֖ד וְאֶת־שָׁ֑לֶף וְאֶת־חֲצַרְמָ֖וֶת וְאֶת־יָֽרַח׃

*Word for word:* and Joktan he.fathered (et) Almodad and (et) Sheleph and (et) Hazarmaveth and (et) Jerah

*JPS 1917:* And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah;

[1 Chronicles 1:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.20/#tree)

וְיָקְטָ֣ן יָלַ֔ד אֶת־אַלְמוֹדָ֖ד וְאֶת־שָׁ֑לֶף וְאֶת־חֲצַרְמָ֖וֶת וְאֶת־יָֽרַח׃

*Word for word:* and Joktan he.fathered (et) Almodad and (et) Sheleph and (et) Hazarmaveth and (et) Jerah

*JPS 1917:* And Joktan begot Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3392.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3392/): 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).