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# כְּלוּב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3620

**Chelub** — 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

Chelub [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3620/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּלוּב: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3620/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a name in Judah 1 Ch 4:11, 𝔊 Χαλεβ (according to WeCentib. 20, Hist. 218 = כָּלֵב בֶּן־חֶזְרוֹן; read also for כַּרְמִי v 1). father of one of David’s officers, according to 1 Ch 27:26 (𝔊 Χοβουδ, A Χελουβ, 𝔊L Χαλουβ).

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 (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Kelub (1); of Kelub (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 4:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.11/#tree)

וּכְל֥וּב אֲחִֽי־שׁוּחָ֖ה הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־מְחִ֑יר ה֖וּא אֲבִ֥י אֶשְׁתּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and Kelub the.brother of.Shuhah he.fathered (et) Mehir he \[was\].the.father of.Eshton

*JPS 1917:* And Chelub the brother of Shuhah begot Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

[1 Chronicles 27:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.26/#tree)

וְעַ֗ל עֹשֵׂי֙ מְלֶ֣אכֶת הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה לַעֲבֹדַ֖ת הָאֲדָמָ֑ה עֶזְרִ֖י בֶּן־כְּלֽוּב׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] over the.doers of.the.work of the.field for the.labor of the.ground Ezri the.son of.Kelub

*JPS 1917:* and over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3620.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3620/): 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).