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# נְחִילֹות

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5155

**flute** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

flute [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5155/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְחִילָה: n.f. meaning unknown [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5155/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. meaning unknown; only pl. in phr. אֶל־הַנְּחִילוֹת ψ 5:1 (title); most conj. = נְחִלּוֹת √ חלל = חָלִיל flute; v. against this BaeEinl. xi, who thinks (cf. 𝔊 ὑπὲρ τῆς κληρονομούσης = אֶל־הַנֹּחֶלֶת \[cf. 𝔙\], Jerome \[Aq. Symm\] pro hereditatibus = אֶל־הַנְּחָלֹת) possibly designation of a melody.

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 5:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.5.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.5.1/#tree)

לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ אֶֽל־הַנְּחִיל֗וֹת מִזְמ֥וֹר לְדָוִֽד׃

*Word for word:* to the choirmaster to the flutes a.psalm of David

*JPS 1917:* For the Leader; upon the Nehiloth. A Psalm of David.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5155.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5155/): 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).