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# עֵלִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5941

**Eli** — used 33 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

Eli [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5941/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵלִי: n.pr.m. Eli [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5941/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Eli, priest at Shiloh 1 S 1:3 (+ v 3 𝔊 Th Klo HPS), v 9, 12 + 28 times 1–4 + 14:3 1 K 2:27; Ηλει.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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: Eli (24); of Eli (9).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 2:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.12/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֥י עֵלִ֖י בְּנֵ֣י בְלִיָּ֑עַל לֹ֥א יָדְע֖וּ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Eli \[were\].sons of.worthlessness not they.knew (et) Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not the LORD.

[1 Samuel 1:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.25/#tree)

וַֽיִּשְׁחֲט֖וּ אֶת־הַפָּ֑ר וַיָּבִ֥יאוּ אֶת־הַנַּ֖עַר אֶל־עֵלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.slaughtered (et) the.young bull and they.brought (et) the lad to Eli

*JPS 1917:* And when the bullock was slain, the child was brought to Eli.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5941.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5941/): 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).