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# מְנַחֵם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4505

**Menahem** — used 8 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

Menahem [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4505/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְנַחֵם²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4505/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (comforter), king of Northern Israel, 2 K 15:14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23; 𝔊 Μαναημ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Menahem (6); of Menahem (2).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 15:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.22/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁכַּ֥ב מְנַחֵ֖ם עִם־אֲבֹתָ֑יו וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ פְּקַחְיָ֥ה בְנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.lay.down Menahem with ancestors his and he.became.king Pekahiah son his in place.of.him

*JPS 1917:* And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.

[2 Kings 15:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.23/#tree)

בִּשְׁנַת֙ חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה לַעֲזַרְיָ֖ה מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֑ה מָ֠לַךְ פְּקַֽחְיָ֨ה בֶן־מְנַחֵ֧ם עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל בְּשֹׁמְר֖וֹן שְׁנָתָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* in year fifty year of Azariah the.king of.Judah he.became.king Pekahiah the.son of.Menahem over Israel in Samaria two.years

*JPS 1917:* In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4505.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4505/): 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).