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# עַכְבּוֹר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5907

**Achbor** — used 7 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

Achbor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5907/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַכְבּוֹר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5907/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (mouse, cf. עַכְבָּר, v. GrayProp. N. 93; עכבר OH and Ph. as n.pr. Lzb 340 (cf. also on simil. Lat. n.pr. Cl-GannJAs 1883, Fev.–Mar. 128));—𝔊 Αχοβωρ: Edomite Gn 36:38, 39 (P) = עַכְבֹּר 1 Ch 1:49 (Baer Ginsb). courtier of Josiah 2 K 22:12, 14, perhaps also Je 26:22; 36:12 (cf. Gie and Ency. Bib.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Achbor (5); Achbor (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.38/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת שָׁא֑וּל וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ תַּחְתָּ֔יו בַּ֥עַל חָנָ֖ן בַּ֥עַל חָנָ֖ן בֶּן־עַכְבּֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Shaul and he.reigned in place.of.him Baal-Hanan Baal-Hanan the.son of.Achbor

*JPS 1917:* And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

[1 Chronicles 1:49](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.49/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.49/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת שָׁא֑וּל וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ תַּחְתָּ֔יו בַּ֥עַל חָנָ֖ן בַּ֥עַל חָנָ֖ן בֶּן־עַכְבּֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Shaul and he.reigned in place.of.him Baal-Hanan Baal-Hanan the.son of.Achbor

*JPS 1917:* And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5907.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5907/): 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).