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# פְּלֵתִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6432

**courier** — used 7 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

courier [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6432/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּלֵתִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6432/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. from unknown n.pr.; only c. art. as n. coll. with הַכְּרֵתִי (q.v.) of David’s guard 2 S 8:18; 15:18; 20:7, 23; 1 K 1:38, 44; 1 Ch 18:17.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 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: Pelethite\[s\] (7).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 8:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.8.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.8.18/#tree)

וּבְנָיָ֙הוּ֙ בֶּן־יְה֣וֹיָדָ֔ע וְהַכְּרֵתִ֖י וְהַפְּלֵתִ֑י וּבְנֵ֥י דָוִ֖ד כֹּהֲנִ֥ים הָיֽוּ׃פ

*Word for word:* and Benaiah the.son of.Jehoiada and the Kerethite\[s\] and the Pelethite\[s\] and the.sons of.David \[were\].priests they.were

*JPS 1917:* and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief ministers.

[2 Samuel 20:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.23/#tree)

וְיוֹאָ֕ב אֶ֥ל כָּל־הַצָּבָ֖א יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וּבְנָיָה֙ בֶּן־יְה֣וֹיָדָ֔ע עַל־הַכְּרֵתִ֖י וְעַל־הַפְּלֵתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Joab \[was\].to all the army of.Israel and Benaiah the.son of.Jehoiada \[was\].over the Kerethite\[s\] and over the Pelethite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Now Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6432.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6432/): 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).