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# שַׂלְמַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8014

**Shalmai** — 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

Shalmai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8014/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׂלְמַי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8014/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. head of post-ex. family;—שׁ׳ Ezr 2:46 Qr (Kt. שׂמלי \[cf. NH n.pr. שִׂמְלַי Dalman, Liḥy. שמל DHMEpigr. Denkm. Ar. No. 13\]; so Baer; van d. H. Gi Qr שַׁלְמַי; Σαμααν, A𝔊L Σελαμ(ε)ι) = שַׂלְמָ֑י Ne 7:48 (Σελαμει; א Σαμαει).

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 (3 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: of Shalmai (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.46/#tree)

בְּנֵי־חָגָ֥ב בְּנֵי־שַׁלְמַ֖י בְּנֵ֥י חָנָֽן׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Hagab the.descendants of.Shalmai the.descendants of.Hanan

*JPS 1917:* the children of Hagab, the children of Salmai, the children of Hanan;

[Nehemiah 7:48](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.48/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.48/#tree)

בְּנֵי־לְבָנָ֥ה בְנֵי־חֲגָבָ֖ה בְּנֵ֥י שַׁלְמָֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Lebanah the.descendants of.Hagabah the.descendants of.Shalmai

*JPS 1917:* the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8014.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8014/): 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).