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# פְּלֹנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6397

**a certain one** — used 3 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

a certain one [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6397/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּלֹנִי²: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6397/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. erron.: c. art. הַפְּלוֹנִי 1 Ch 11:27; 27:10 read הַפַּלְטִי as 2 S 23:26 (v. בֵּית פָּ֑לֶט); הַפְּלֹנִי 1 Ch 11:36 read הַגִּלֹנִי, as 2 S 23:34.—i. פְּלֹנִי v. פלה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Pelonite (3).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 11:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.27/#tree)

שַׁמּוֹת֙ הַהֲרוֹרִ֔י חֶ֖לֶץ הַפְּלוֹנִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Shammoth the Harorite Helez the Pelonite

*JPS 1917:* Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite;

[1 Chronicles 11:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.36/#tree)

חֵ֚פֶר הַמְּכֵ֣רָתִ֔י אֲחִיָּ֖ה הַפְּלֹנִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Hepher the Mekerathite Ahijah the Pelonite

*JPS 1917:* Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6397.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6397/): 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).