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# מַחְלִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4249

**Mahli** — used 12 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

Mahli [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4249/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחְלִי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4249/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Levite, son of Merari Ex 6:19 Nu 3:20 1 Ch 6:4, 14; 23:21(×2) 24:26, 28 Ezr 8:18 (prob.), 𝔊 Μοολλει. son of Mushi, and grandson of Merari 1 Ch 6:32; 23:23; 24:30, 𝔊 Μοολει, Μοολ(λ)ι.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[were\] Mahli (8); of Mahli (3); Mahlite\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.32/#tree)

בֶּן־מַחְלִי֙ בֶּן־מוּשִׁ֔י בֶּן־מְרָרִ֖י בֶּן־לֵוִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* the.son of.Mahli the.son of.Mushi the.son of.Merari the.son of.Levi

*JPS 1917:* the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

[1 Chronicles 23:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.23/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י מוּשִׁ֗י מַחְלִ֥י וְעֵ֛דֶר וִירֵמ֖וֹת שְׁלֹשָֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Mushi \[were\].Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth three

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4249.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4249/): 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).