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# מַחֲלַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4258

**Mahalath** — 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

Mahalath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4258/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחֲלַת³: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4258/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. daughter of Ishmael Gn 28:9, 𝔊 Μαελεθ. granddaughter of David 2 Ch 11:18, 𝔊 Μολλαθ; 𝔊L Μαελλεθ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 11:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.18/#tree)

וַיִּֽקַּֽח־ל֤וֹ רְחַבְעָם֙ אִשָּׁ֔ה אֶת־מָ֣חֲלַ֔ת בַּת־יְרִימ֖וֹת בֶּן־דָּוִ֑יד אֲבִיהַ֕יִל בַּת־אֱלִיאָ֖ב בֶּן־יִשָֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* and he.took for himself Rehoboam a.wife (et) Mahalath the.daughter of.Jerimoth the.son of.David Abihail the.daughter of.Eliab the.son of.Jesse

*JPS 1917:* And Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;

[Genesis 28:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.28.9/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ עֵשָׂ֖ו אֶל־יִשְׁמָעֵ֑אל וַיִּקַּ֡ח אֶֽת־מָחֲלַ֣ת ׀ בַּת־יִשְׁמָעֵ֨אל בֶּן־אַבְרָהָ֜ם אֲח֧וֹת נְבָי֛וֹת עַל־נָשָׁ֖יו ל֥וֹ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.went Esau to Ishmael and he.took (et) Mahalath the.daughter of.Ishmael the.son of.Abraham the.sister of.Nebaioth to wives his for himself to a.wife

*JPS 1917:* so Esau went unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives that he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4258/): 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).