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# עִלִּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5942

**upper** — used 2 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

upper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5942/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עִלִּי: adj. upper [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5942/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. upper;—fs. עִלִּית Ju 1:15; pl. עִלִּיּוֹת Jos 15:19 (opp. תַּחְתִּית, תַּחְתִּיּוֹת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (24 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: upper (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.19/#tree)

וַתֹּ֜אמֶר תְּנָה־לִּ֣י בְרָכָ֗ה כִּ֣י אֶ֤רֶץ הַנֶּ֙גֶב֙ נְתַתָּ֔נִי וְנָתַתָּ֥ה לִ֖י גֻּלֹּ֣ת מָ֑יִם וַיִּתֶּן־לָ֗הּ אֵ֚ת גֻּלֹּ֣ת עִלִּיּ֔וֹת וְאֵ֖ת גֻּלֹּ֥ת תַּחְתִּיּֽוֹת׃פ

*Word for word:* and she.said give to me a.blessing (dm) the.land of the.Negev you have.given.to.me and you.will.give to me springs of.water and he.gave to her (et) springs upper and (et) springs lower

*JPS 1917:* And she said: 'Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the Southland, give me therefore springs of water.' And he gave her the Upper Springs and the Nether Springs.

[Judges 1:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.1.15/#tree)

וַתֹּ֨אמֶר ל֜וֹ הָֽבָה־לִּ֣י בְרָכָ֗ה כִּ֣י אֶ֤רֶץ הַנֶּ֙גֶב֙ נְתַתָּ֔נִי וְנָתַתָּ֥ה לִ֖י גֻּלֹּ֣ת מָ֑יִם וַיִּתֶּן־לָ֣הּ כָּלֵ֗ב אֵ֚ת גֻּלֹּ֣ת עִלִּ֔ית וְאֵ֖ת גֻּלֹּ֥ת תַּחְתִּֽית׃פ

*Word for word:* and she.said to him give to me a.blessing (dm) the.land of the.Negev you have.given.to.me and you.will.give to me springs of.water and he.gave to her Caleb (et) springs upper and (et) springs lower

*JPS 1917:* And she said unto him: 'Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the Southland, give me therefore springs of water.' And Caleb gave her the Upper Springs and the Nether Springs.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5942.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5942/): 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).