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# שִׁלְחִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7977

**Shilhi** — used 2 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

Shilhi [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7977/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁלְחִי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7977/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of Jehoshaphat’s mothers;—1 K 22:42 = 2 Ch 20:31; Σεμεει, Σαλαλα, Σαλει, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Shilhi (2).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 22:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.22.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.22.42/#tree)

יְהוֹשָׁפָ֗ט בֶּן־שְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים וְחָמֵ֤שׁ שָׁנָה֙ בְּמָלְכ֔וֹ וְעֶשְׂרִ֤ים וְחָמֵשׁ֙ שָׁנָ֔ה מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ עֲזוּבָ֖ה בַּת־שִׁלְחִֽי׃

*Word for word:* Jehoshaphat \[was\].a.son of.thirty and five year\[s\] when he became.king and twenty and five year\[s\] he.reigned in Jerusalem and the.name his.mother his \[was\].Azubah the.daughter of.Shilhi

*JPS 1917:* Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

[2 Chronicles 20:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.20.31/#tree)

וַיִּמְלֹ֥ךְ יְהוֹשָׁפָ֖ט עַל־יְהוּדָ֑ה בֶּן־שְׁלֹשִׁים֩ וְחָמֵ֨שׁ שָׁנָ֜ה בְּמָלְכ֗וֹ וְעֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְחָמֵ֤שׁ שָׁנָה֙ מָלַ֣ךְ בִּֽירוּשָׁלִַ֔ם וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ עֲזוּבָ֖ה בַּת־שִׁלְחִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.reigned Jehoshaphat over Judah a.son of.thirty and five year\[s\] when he became.king and twenty and five year\[s\] he.reigned in Jerusalem and the.name his.mother his \[was\].Azubah the.daughter of.Shilhi

*JPS 1917:* And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah; he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7977.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7977/): 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).