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# עֵינָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5881

**Enan. Compare** — used 5 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

Enan. Compare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5881/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵינָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5881/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Αιναν, name in Naphtali Nu 1:15; 2:29; 7:78, 83; 10:27.—Vid. also חֲצַר עֵינוֹן.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Enan (5).

## 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.'

[Numbers 10:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.27/#tree)

וְעַ֨ל־צְבָ֔א מַטֵּ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י נַפְתָּלִ֑י אֲחִירַ֖ע בֶּן־עֵינָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] over the.military.group of.the.tribe of.the.descendants of.Naphtali Ahira the.son of.Enan

*JPS 1917:* And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5881.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5881/): 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).