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# מֵרֹנֹתִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4824

**the Merothonite** — 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

the Merothonite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4824/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֵרֹנֹתִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4824/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. (deriv. unknown) c. art. as subst.=the Merothonite 1 Ch 27:30; 𝔊 ὁ ἐκ Μεραθων. Ne 3:7; 𝔊L ὁ Μηρωναθαιος.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: Meronothite (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 27:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.30/#tree)

וְעַל־הַ֨גְּמַלִּ֔ים אוֹבִ֖יל הַיִּשְׁמְעֵלִ֑י וְעַל־הָ֣אֲתֹנ֔וֹת יֶחְדְּיָ֖הוּ הַמֵּרֹנֹתִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] over the camels Obil the Ishmaelite and.\[was\] over the she-asses Jehdeiah the Meronothite

*JPS 1917:* and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the asses was Jehdeiah the Meronothite;

[Nehemiah 3:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.7/#tree)

וְעַל־יָדָ֨ם הֶחֱזִ֜יק מְלַטְיָ֣ה הַגִּבְעֹנִ֗י וְיָדוֹן֙ הַמֵּרֹ֣נֹתִ֔י אַנְשֵׁ֥י גִבְע֖וֹן וְהַמִּצְפָּ֑ה לְכִסֵּ֕א פַּחַ֖ת עֵ֥בֶר הַנָּהָֽר׃ס

*Word for word:* and on hand their he.repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite the.men of.Gibeon and (the) Mizpah to the.seat of.the.governor of.the.other.side of the.River

*JPS 1917:* And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, for them that appertained to the throne of the governor beyond the River.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4824.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4824/): 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).