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# שִׁילֹנִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7888

**Shilonite** — 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

Shilonite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7888/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁילֹנִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7888/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** etc., adj.gent. of foreg.: הַשִׁילֹנִי of Ahijajh 1 K 11:29; 15:29, הַשִּׁלֹנִי 12:15; הַשִּׁילוֹנִי 2 Ch 9:29; הַשִּׁלוֹנִי 10:15; also הַשִּׁילוֹנִי (coll.) 1 Ch 9:5, in ‖ Ne 11:5 הַשִּׁלֹנִי without n.pr.m., but in both these read הַשֵּׁ(י)לָנִי Be Ke Ryle GuHpt Siegf Ne Buhl, etc.; v. ii. שֵׁלָה.

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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shilonite (5); Shilonite\[s\] (1); the Shilonite (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 9:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.5/#tree)

וּמִן־הַשִּׁ֣ילוֹנִ֔י עֲשָׂיָ֥ה הַבְּכ֖וֹר וּבָנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and of the Shilonite\[s\] Asaiah the firstborn and sons his

*JPS 1917:* And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the first-born and his sons.

[Nehemiah 11:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.5/#tree)

וּמַעֲשֵׂיָ֣ה בֶן־בָּר֣וּךְ בֶּן־כָּל־֠חֹזֶהכָּל־֠חֹזֶה בֶּן־חֲזָיָ֨ה בֶן־עֲדָיָ֧ה בֶן־יוֹיָרִ֛יב בֶּן־זְכַרְיָ֖ה בֶּן־הַשִּׁלֹנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Maaseiah the.son of.Baruch the.son of Col-Hozeh the.son of.Hazaiah the.son of.Adaiah the.son of.Joiarib the.son of.Zechariah the.son of the.Shilonite

*JPS 1917:* and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Colhozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of the Shilonite.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7888.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7888/): 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).