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# עִירָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5896

**Ira** — used 6 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

Ira [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5896/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִירָא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5896/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (v. Sab. n.pr.m. עיר Hal169);— כֹּהֵן (q.v. 1) of David 2 S 20:26; on poss. ident. with 2 b v. Th Klo HPS, opp. We Dr; Ειρας, 𝔊L Ιωδαε. heroes of David (Ειρας, etc., 𝔊L Ιδαε, Οιαδ, etc.): 2 S 23:26 = 1 Ch 11:28; 1 Ch 27:9. 2 S 23:38 = 1 Ch 11:40.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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: Ira (6).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 23:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.38/#tree)

עִירָא֙ הַיִּתְרִ֔י גָּרֵ֖ב הַיִּתְרִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Ira the Ithrite Gareb the Ithrite

*JPS 1917:* Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite;

[1 Chronicles 11:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.40/#tree)

עִירָא֙ הַיִּתְרִ֔י גָּרֵ֖ב הַיִּתְרִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Ira the Ithrite Gareb the Ithrite

*JPS 1917:* Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5896.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5896/): 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).