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# עִירוּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5900

**Iru** — 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

Iru [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5900/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִירוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5900/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Judah 1 Ch 4:15, Ηρ(α).

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 (27 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (20 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] Iru (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 4:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.15/#tree)

וּבְנֵי֙ כָּלֵ֣ב בֶּן־יְפֻנֶּ֔ה עִ֥ירוּ אֵלָ֖ה וָנָ֑עַם וּבְנֵ֥י אֵלָ֖ה וּקְנַֽז׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Caleb the.son of.Jephunneh \[was\].Iru Elah and Naam and the.sons of.Elah and Kenaz

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah: Kenaz.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5900.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5900/): 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).