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title: בִּלְגָּה — Bilgah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בִּלְגָּה (1083), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Bilgah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בִּלְגָּה

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«בִּלְגָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Bilgah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 1083 · **BDB:** בִּלְגָּה

### Glosses

Bilgah (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Bilgah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1083/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1083/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cheerfulness)— priest of 15th course (David’s time) 1 Ch 24:14. priest that went up with Zerubbabel Ne 12:5, 18.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בִּלְגָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1083/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 12:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.5/)

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מִיָּמִ֥ין מַֽעַדְיָ֖ה בִּלְגָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* Mijamin Moadiah Bilgah

*JPS 1917:* Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah;

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[Nehemiah 12:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.18/)

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לְבִלְגָּ֣ה שַׁמּ֔וּעַ לִֽשְׁמַעְיָ֖ה יְהוֹנָתָֽן׃

*Word for word:* of Bilgah Shammua of Shemaiah Jonathan

*JPS 1917:* of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan;

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