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# מַהֲלַלְאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4111

**Mahalaleel** — used 7 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

Mahalaleel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4111/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַהֲלַלְאֵל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4111/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (praise of God, cf. יְהַלֶּלְאֵל supr.); read מְהַלֶּלְאֵל GrayProp. N. 201.— great-grandson of Seth according to genealogy of P, Gn 5:12, 13, 15, 16, 17 1 Ch 1:2. a man of Judah Ne 11:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Mahalalel (5); of Mahalalel (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.2/#tree)

קֵינָ֥ן מַהֲלַלְאֵ֖ל יָֽרֶד׃

*Word for word:* Kenan Mahalalel Jared

*JPS 1917:* Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared;

[Genesis 5:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.5.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.5.12/#tree)

וַֽיְחִ֥י קֵינָ֖ן שִׁבְעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֑ה וַיּ֖וֹלֶד אֶת־מַֽהֲלַלְאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.lived Kenan seventy year\[s\] and he.fathered (et) Mahalalel

*JPS 1917:* And Kenan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalalel.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4111/): 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).