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# עַזְבּוּק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5802

**Azbuk** — 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

Azbuk [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5802/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַזְבּוּק²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5802/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of one Nehemiah, a wall-builder Ne 3:16, Αζαβουχ, 𝔊L Εζδουκ.

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

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 3:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.16/#tree)

אַחֲרָ֤יו הֶחֱזִיק֙ נְחֶמְיָ֣ה בֶן־עַזְבּ֔וּק שַׂ֕ר חֲצִ֖י פֶּ֣לֶךְ בֵּֽית־צ֑וּרבֵּֽית־צ֑וּר עַד־נֶ֙גֶד֙ קִבְרֵ֣י דָוִ֔יד וְעַד־הַבְּרֵכָה֙ הָעֲשׂוּיָ֔ה וְעַ֖ד בֵּ֥ית הַגִּבֹּרִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* after him he.repaired Nehemiah the.son of.Azbuk the.official of.(the).half of.the.district of Beth.Zur to before the.tombs of.David and to the pool (the) made and to the.house of the.mighty.\[men\]

*JPS 1917:* After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and unto the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty men.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5802.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5802/): 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).