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# קְלִיטָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7042

**Kelita** — 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

Kelita [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7042/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְלִיטָא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7042/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Levite, Ne 8:7; 10:11 (𝔊L in both Καλλιτας) Ezr 10:23 (where called also קֵלָיָה, v. קוֹלָיָה), Κωλιευ, A Κωλιτας, 𝔊L as Ne.

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 (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: Kelita (2); \[is\] Kelita (1).

## 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;

[Ezra 10:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.23/#tree)

וּמִֽן־הַלְוִיִּ֑ם יוֹזָבָ֣ד וְשִׁמְעִ֗י וְקֵֽלָיָה֙ ה֣וּא קְלִיטָ֔א פְּתַֽחְיָ֥ה יְהוּדָ֖ה וֶאֱלִיעֶֽזֶר׃ס

*Word for word:* and of the Levites Jozabad and Shimei and Kelaiah it \[is\].Kelita Pethahiah Judah and Eliezer

*JPS 1917:* And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah — the same is Kelita — Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7042.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7042/): 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).