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# תַּלְמַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8526

**Talmai** — used 6 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

Talmai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8526/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּלְמַי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8526/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. king of Geshur, father-in-law of David, 2 S 3:3; 13:37; 1 Ch 3:2. a son of ʿAnaḳ Nu 13:22; Jos 15:14, תַּלְמָ֑י Ju 1:10; Θομμει, Θολμει, Θαλαμειν, 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: Talmai (4); of Talmai (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 3:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.2/#tree)

הַשְּׁלִשִׁי֙ לְאַבְשָׁל֣וֹם בֶּֽן־מַעֲכָ֔ה בַּת־תַּלְמַ֖י מֶ֣לֶךְ גְּשׁ֑וּר הָרְבִיעִ֖י אֲדֹנִיָּ֥ה בֶן־חַגִּֽית׃

*Word for word:* the third \[was\].(to) Absalom the.son of.Maacah the.daughter of.Talmai the.king of.Geshur the fourth \[was\].Adonijah the.son of.Haggith

*JPS 1917:* the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith;

[2 Samuel 13:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.13.37/#tree)

וְאַבְשָׁל֣וֹם בָּרַ֔ח וַיֵּ֛לֶךְ אֶל־תַּלְמַ֥י בֶּן־עַמִּיה֖וּד מֶ֣לֶךְ גְּשׁ֑וּר וַיִּתְאַבֵּ֥ל עַל־בְּנ֖וֹ כָּל־הַיָּמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and Absalom he.fled and he.went to Talmai the.son of.Ammihud the.king of.Geshur and he.mourned on son his all the days

*JPS 1917:* But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8526.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8526/): 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).