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# קוּשָׁיָהוּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6984

**Kushaiah** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Kushaiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6984/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קוּשָׁיָ֫הוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6984/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (form dub.; KitHpt קִישׁ׳, cf. 6:29 and 𝔊; PeiZAW xvii (1897), 348 finds here a god Ḳûs, but very precarious);—Levite, 1 Ch 15:17, (υἱὸς) Κ(ε)ισαίου, = קִישִׁי 6:29, Κεισαι\[ν\], 𝔊L Κουσει.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Kushaiah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 15:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.17/#tree)

וַיַּעֲמִ֣ידוּ הַלְוִיִּ֗ם אֵ֚ת הֵימָ֣ן בֶּן־יוֹאֵ֔ל וּמִ֨ן־אֶחָ֔יו אָסָ֖ף בֶּן־בֶּֽרֶכְיָ֑הוּס וּמִן־בְּנֵ֤י מְרָרִי֙ אֲחֵיהֶ֔ם אֵיתָ֖ן בֶּן־קֽוּשָׁיָֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they.appointed the Levites (et) Heman the.son of.Joel and of relatives his Asaph the.son of.Berekiah and of the.descendants of.Merari relatives their Ethan the.son of.Kushaiah

*JPS 1917:* So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6984.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/6984/): 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).