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title: זַבְדִּי — Zabdi · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זַבְדִּי (2067), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: Zabdi. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זַבְדִּי

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«זַבְדִּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Zabdi** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** 2067 · **BDB:** זַבְדִּי

### Glosses

Zabdi (3); of.Zabdi (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Zabdi [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2067/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2067/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cf. Arabic زَبْدٌ gift;? gift of י׳, vid. DrStud. Bib. i. 5 \& reff.; perhaps my gift, gift to me: cf. זַבְדִּיאֵל; in NH n.pr. זבדי (זַבְדִּי or זַבְדַּי?) NT Ζεβεδαῖος, e.g. Mk 1:9, 𝔖 ܙܰܒܕܰܝ, Zebedee)— grandfather of Achan, of Judah (𝔊 Ζαμβρ(ε)ι etc., 𝔊L Ζαβδ(ε)ι) Jos 7:1 (app. = זִמְרִי 1 Ch 2:6, 𝔊 Ζαμβρ(ε)ι) v 17, 18. a Benjamite 1 Ch 8:19. an officer of David 1 Ch 27:27. a Levite Ne 11:17 (om. B; A Ζεχρι, 𝔊L Ζεχρει) prob. read זִכְרִי, as ‖ 1 Ch 9:15.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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 (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זַבְדִּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2067/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 8:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.19/)

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וְיָקִ֥ים וְזִכְרִ֖י וְזַבְדִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Jakim and Zikri and Zabdi

*JPS 1917:* And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi;

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[Joshua 7:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.7.18/)

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וַיַּקְרֵ֥ב אֶת־בֵּית֖וֹ לַגְּבָרִ֑ים וַיִּלָּכֵ֗ד עָכָ֞ן בֶּן־כַּרְמִ֧י בֶן־זַבְדִּ֛י בֶּן־זֶ֖רַח לְמַטֵּ֥ה יְהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.brought.near (et) household his to the men and he.was.taken.by.lot Achan the.son of.Carmi the.son of.Zabdi the.son of.Zerah of the.tribe of.Judah

*JPS 1917:* And he brought near his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

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