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# מַחֲוִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4233

**Machavite** — 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

Machavite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4233/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחֲוִים: adj. gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4233/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** appar. adj. gent., only אֱלִיאֵל הַמּ׳ 1 Ch 11:46, but read prob. הַמַּחֲנִי (Be), v. מַחֲנַיִם n.pr.loc. sub חנה; Öt suggests also הַמְּעוֹנִי; 𝔊 ὁ Μιει, A ὁ Μαωειν, 𝔊L ὁ Μαωθε.

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 (3 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: Mahavite (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 11:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.46/#tree)

אֱלִיאֵל֙ הַֽמַּחֲוִ֔ים וִירִיבַ֥י וְיוֹשַׁוְיָ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י אֶלְנָ֑עַם וְיִתְמָ֖ה הַמּוֹאָבִֽי׃

*Word for word:* Eliel the Mahavite and Jeribai and Joshaviah the.sons of.Elnaam and Ithmah the Moabite

*JPS 1917:* Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4233/): 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).