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# עִילַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5866

**Ilai** — 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

Ilai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5866/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵילַי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5866/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. one of David’s heroes 1 Ch 11:29, Ηλει, Ηλα (= צַלְמוֹן 2 S 23:28).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (24 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (17 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ilai (1).

## 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;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5866.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5866/): 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).