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title: זְבוּלֹנִי — the Zebulonites · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זְבוּלֹנִי (2075), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: the Zebulonites. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זְבוּלֹנִי

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«זְבוּלֹנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **the Zebulonites** — 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:** 2075 · **BDB:** זְבוּלֹנִי

### Glosses

Zebulunite (2); the.Zebulunite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

the Zebulonites [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2075/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2075/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. Ju 12:11, 12; c. art. = n. coll. the Zebulonites Nu 26:27.

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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, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זְבוּלֹנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2075/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 26:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.27/)

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אֵ֛לֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹ֥ת הַזְּבוּלֹנִ֖י לִפְקֻדֵיהֶ֑ם שִׁשִּׁ֥ים אֶ֖לֶף וַחֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת׃ס

*Word for word:* these \[were\].the.clans of the.Zebulunite\[s\] to their.enrolled \[men\] sixty thousand and five hundred(s)

*JPS 1917:* These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.

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[Judges 12:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.12.12/)

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וַיָּ֖מָת אֵל֣וֹן הַזְּבֽוּלֹנִ֑י וַיִּקָּבֵ֥ר בְּאַיָּל֖וֹן בְּאֶ֥רֶץ זְבוּלֻֽן׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.died Elon the Zebulunite and he.was.buried in Aijalon in the.land of.Zebulun

*JPS 1917:* And Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

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