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# עֲמָשַׂי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6022

**Amasai** — used 5 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

Amasai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6022/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲמָשַׂי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6022/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cf. foreg.);— warrior of David 1 Ch 12:19 (van d. H. v 18), Αμασαι, perhaps = אֲבִישִׁי (2 S 23:18). Levites; 1 Ch 6:10, 20 (עֲמָשָׁ֑י). 2 Ch 29:12. priest 1 Ch 15:24.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 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 (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Amasai (2); of Amasai (2); \[were\] Amasai (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.10/#tree)

וּבְנֵי֙ אֶלְקָנָ֔ה עֲמָשַׂ֖י וַאֲחִימֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Elkanah \[were\].Amasai and Ahimoth

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.

[1 Chronicles 6:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.20/#tree)

בֶּן־צוּף֙ בֶּן־אֶלְקָנָ֔ה בֶּן־מַ֖חַת בֶּן־עֲמָשָֽׂי׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Zuph the.son of.Elkanah the.son of.Mahath the.son of.Amasai

*JPS 1917:* the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6022/): 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).