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# פְּלָאיָה

Biblical Hebrew

**Pelaiah** — 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

Pelaiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b8_5d0_5d9_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּלָאיָה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b8_5d0_5d9_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Ne 8:7; 10:11, 𝔊L Φαλαιας.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 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: Pelaiah (2).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.11/#tree)

וַאֲחֵיהֶ֑ם שְׁבַנְיָ֧ה הֽוֹדִיָּ֛ה קְלִיטָ֖א פְּלָאיָ֥ה חָנָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and brothers their Shebaniah Hodiah Kelita Pelaiah Hanan

*JPS 1917:* and their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan;

[Nehemiah 8:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.8.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.8.7/#tree)

וְיֵשׁ֡וּעַ וּבָנִ֡י וְשֵׁרֵ֥בְיָ֣ה ׀ יָמִ֡ין עַקּ֡וּב שַׁבְּתַ֣י ׀ הֽוֹדִיָּ֡ה מַעֲשֵׂיָ֡ה קְלִיטָ֣א עֲזַרְיָה֩ יוֹזָבָ֨ד חָנָ֤ן פְּלָאיָה֙ וְהַלְוִיִּ֔ם מְבִינִ֥ים אֶת־הָעָ֖ם לַתּוֹרָ֑ה וְהָעָ֖ם עַל־עָמְדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah Jamin Akkub Shabbethai Hodiah Maaseiah Kelita Azariah Jozabad Hanan Pelaiah and the Levites \[were\].causing.to.understand (et) the people (to) the law and the people \[were\].at place their

*JPS 1917:* Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, even the Levites, caused the people to understand the Law; and the people stood in their place.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5dc_5b8_5d0_5d9_5b8_5d4/): 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).