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# עֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6147

**Er** — used 10 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

Er [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6147/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֵר: n.pr.m. Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6147/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Hρ (cf. עוּר Qal Pt.);— eldest son of Judah Gn 38:3, 6 = 1 Ch 2:3(×2), Gn 38:7; 46:12(×2) Nu 26:19(×2). son of Judah’s son Shelah 1 Ch 4:21.—Vid. also Qal Pt. עֵר supr.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Er (7); \[were\] Er (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 38:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.3/#tree)

וַתַּ֖הַר וַתֵּ֣לֶד בֵּ֑ן וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ עֵֽר׃

*Word for word:* and she.conceived and she.bore a.son and he.called (et) name his Er

*JPS 1917:* And she conceived, and bore a son; and he called his name Er.

[Genesis 38:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.6/#tree)

וַיִּקַּ֧ח יְהוּדָ֛ה אִשָּׁ֖ה לְעֵ֣ר בְּכוֹר֑וֹ וּשְׁמָ֖הּ תָּמָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.took Judah a.wife for Er firstborn his and name her \[was\].Tamar

*JPS 1917:* And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6147.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6147/): 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).