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# קְעִילָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7084

**Keilah** — used 18 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

Keilah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7084/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קְעִילָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7084/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Κεειλα: in Judah, toward Philistines, ק׳ 1 S 23:1 + 13 times 23 (קְעִלָה, v 3, 13); Jos 15:44 (P), cf. 2 Ch 4:19 (geneal. scheme); post-ex. פֶּלֶךְ קְעִילָה Ne 3:17, 18; mod. Kîlā, c. 8 m. NW. from Hebron, GASmGeogr. 230 BuhlGeogr. 193; cl. TelAm. Ḳilti Wkl No. 165, 11, 18, etc..

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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: Keilah (12); of Keilah (6).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:44](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.44/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.44/#tree)

וּקְעִילָ֥ה וְאַכְזִ֖יב וּמָֽרֵאשָׁ֑ה עָרִ֥ים תֵּ֖שַׁע וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Keilah and Aczib and Mareshah cities nine and villages their

*JPS 1917:* and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.

[Nehemiah 3:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.18/#tree)

אַחֲרָיו֙ הֶחֱזִ֣יקוּ אֲחֵיהֶ֔ם בַּוַּ֖י בֶּן־חֵנָדָ֑ד שַׂ֕ר חֲצִ֖י פֶּ֥לֶךְ קְעִילָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* after him they.repaired brothers their Bavvai the.son of.Henadad the.official of.(the).half of.the.district of.Keilah

*JPS 1917:* After him repaired their brethren, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7084/): 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).