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title: דְּלָיָה — Dalaiah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דְּלָיָה (1806), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Dalaiah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דְּלָיָה

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«דְּלָיָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Dalaiah** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 1806 · **BDB:** דְּלָיָ֫הוּ

### Glosses

of.Delaiah (3); Delaiah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Dalaiah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1806/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1806/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Yah(u) hath drawn)— דְּלָיָהוּ, a priest, contemp. David, 1 Ch 24:18. a prince of Judah, contemp. Jerem Je 36:12, 25. דְּלָיָה, head of a family contemp. with Zerubb. Ezr 2:60 = Ne 7:62. descendant of Zerubb. 1 Ch 3:24. father of contemp. of Neh. 6:10.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דְּלָיָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1806/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 2:60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.60/)

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בְּנֵי־דְלָיָ֥ה בְנֵי־טוֹבִיָּ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י נְקוֹדָ֑א שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Delaiah the.descendants of.Tobiah the.descendants of.Nekoda six hundred(s) fifty and two

*JPS 1917:* the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.

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[Nehemiah 7:62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.62/)

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בְּנֵי־דְלָיָ֥ה בְנֵֽי־טוֹבִיָּ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י נְקוֹדָ֑א שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת וְאַרְבָּעִ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Delaiah the.descendants of.Tobiah the.descendants of.Nekoda six hundred(s) and forty and two

*JPS 1917:* the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.

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