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# סִבְּכַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5444

**Sibbecai** — used 4 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

Sibbecai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5444/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סִבְּכַי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5444/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a captain of David; 𝔊 Σοβοχαι, etc.; 2 S 21:18 = 1 Ch 20:4, 1 Ch 11:29 + ‖ 2 S 23:27 where read ס׳ for MT מְבֻנַּ׳ Th We Dr Klo Bu Kit Löhr cf. HPS (B ἐκ τῶν υἱῶν, but 𝔊L Σαβενι); also 1 Ch 27:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sibbecai (4).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 11:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.29/#tree)

סִבְּכַי֙ הַחֻ֣שָׁתִ֔י עִילַ֖י הָאֲחוֹחִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Sibbecai the Hushathite Ilai the Ahohite

*JPS 1917:* Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite;

[1 Chronicles 27:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.11/#tree)

הַשְּׁמִינִי֙ לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִ֔י סִבְּכַ֥י הַחֻשָׁתִ֖י לַזַּרְחִ֑י וְעַל֙ מַחֲלֻקְתּ֔וֹ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָ֖ה אָֽלֶף׃ס

*Word for word:* \[was\].the eighth for the month (the) eighth Sibbecai the Hushathite of the Zerahite\[s\] and.\[were\] with division his twenty and four thousand

*JPS 1917:* The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5444.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5444/): 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).