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# כָּלִבִּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3614

**Calebite** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Calebite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3614/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּלִבִּי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3614/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of כָּלֵב 1 S 25:3 Qr (Kt כְּלִבּוֹ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 25:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.3/#tree)

וְשֵׁ֤ם הָאִישׁ֙ נָבָ֔ל וְשֵׁ֥ם אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ אֲבִגָ֑יִל וְהָאִשָּׁ֤ה טֽוֹבַת־שֶׂ֙כֶל֙ וִ֣יפַת תֹּ֔אַר וְהָאִ֥ישׁ קָשֶׁ֛ה וְרַ֥ע מַעֲלָלִ֖ים וְה֥וּא כָלִבִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.name of the.man \[was\].Nabal and the.name his.wife his \[was\].Abigail and the woman \[was\].good of.insight and beautiful of.form and the man \[was\].hard and evil of.deeds and he \[was\].a.Calebite

*JPS 1917:* Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful form; but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3614/): 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).