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# מַהֲרַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4121

**Maharai** — used 3 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

Maharai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4121/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַהֲרַי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4121/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. one of David’s heroes; 2 S 23:28 1 Ch 11:30; 27:13; 𝔊 Νοερε, Μαεραει, Μααρναν, Μααρι, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Maharai (3).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 23:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.28/#tree)

צַלְמוֹן֙ הָֽאֲחֹחִ֔י מַהְרַ֖י הַנְּטֹפָתִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Zalmon the Ahohite Maharai the Netophathite

*JPS 1917:* Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite;

[1 Chronicles 11:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.30/#tree)

מַהְרַי֙ הַנְּטֹ֣פָתִ֔י חֵ֥לֶד בֶּֽן־בַּֽעֲנָ֖ה הַנְּטוֹפָתִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Maharai the Netophathite Heled the.son of.Baanah the Netophathite

*JPS 1917:* Mahrai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4121.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4121/): 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).