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# נַפְתָּלִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5321

**Naphtali** — used 51 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

Naphtali [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5321/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נַפְתָּלִי: n.pr.m. et trib. Naphtali [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5321/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. et trib. Naphtali, Νεφθαλει(μ), etc. (interpr. as my wrestling Gn 30:8; perhaps orig. crafty, cunning one);— second son of Jacob and Bilhah Gn 30:8 (J), 35:25; 46:24 (P), 1 Ch 2:2, cf. Gn 49:21 (poem). as a tribe of Isr.: Ju 1:33; 4:10; 5:18; Dt 33:23(×2) +; so (Hex, only P) בְּנֵי נ׳ Ju 4:6; Nu 1:42 + 6 times, מַטֵּה נ׳ Nu 2:29; 1 K 7:14 + 5 times, מַטֵּה בְּנֵי נ׳ Nu 10:27; 34:28; Jos 19:39; שַׁעַר נ׳ Ez 48:34 (in new Jerus.); אֶרֶץ נ׳ 1 K 15:20; 2 K 15:29, cf. Is 8:23; קֶדֶשׁ נ׳ Ju 4:6; הַר נ׳ Jos 20:7; גְּבוּל נ׳ Ez 48:4, יָ֫מָּה נ׳ v 3; עָרֵי נ׳ 2 Ch 16:4. as territorial name Dt 34:2 (JE) 1 K 4:15; 1 Ch 12:41 (van d. H. v 40), 2 Ch 34:6; Ju 6:35; 7:23 might be a or b.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 30 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: of Naphtali (29); Naphtali (22).

## In the verses

[Numbers 1:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.15/#tree)

לְנַ֨פְתָּלִ֔י אֲחִירַ֖ע בֶּן־עֵינָֽן׃

*Word for word:* for Naphtali Ahira the.son of.Enan

*JPS 1917:* Of Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.'

[Exodus 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.4/#tree)

דָּ֥ן וְנַפְתָּלִ֖י גָּ֥ד וְאָשֵֽׁר׃

*Word for word:* Dan and Naphtali Gad and Asher

*JPS 1917:* Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5321.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5321/): 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).