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# מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4898

**Meshezabeel** — used 3 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

Meshezabeel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4898/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4898/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Jewish name in Persian period (God delivers; from Aramaic שֵׁיזֵיב, ܫܰܘܙܶܒ deliver, Assyrian šûzubu, Shaph. from ezêbu, deliver, DlHWB 35; cf. the Bab. names Mušêzib-Marduk, ‘Marduk delivers’, Mušêzib-ilu, KBii. 281, iv. 129):—grandfather of one of the wall-builders Ne 3:4; one of those sealed 10:22; father of royal officer (a Judaean) 11:24; the relation of these to each other is unknown; 𝔊 Μασεζεβηα, Μεσωζεβηλ, 𝔊L Μασσιζαβελ, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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: of Meshezabel (2); Meshezabel (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.22/#tree)

מְשֵׁיזַבְאֵ֥ל צָד֖וֹק יַדּֽוּעַ׃

*Word for word:* Meshezabel Zadok Jaddua

*JPS 1917:* Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua;

[Nehemiah 11:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.24/#tree)

וּפְתַֽחְיָ֨ה בֶּן־מְשֵֽׁיזַבְאֵ֜ל מִבְּנֵי־זֶ֤רַח בֶּן־יְהוּדָה֙ לְיַ֣ד הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ לְכָל־דָּבָ֖ר לָעָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and Pethahiah the.son of.Meshezabel one of.the.descendants of.Zerah the.son of.Judah \[was\].to the.side of the.king to every matter of the people

*JPS 1917:* And Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4898.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4898/): 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).