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title: אֲבִי — Abi · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲבִי (21), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Abi. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲבִי

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«אֲבִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Abi** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 21 · **BDB:** אֲבִי

### Glosses

\[was\].Abi (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Abi [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/21/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** v. אֲבִיָּהוּ sub II. אבה.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲבִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/21/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 18:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.2/)

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בֶּן־עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְחָמֵ֤שׁ שָׁנָה֙ הָיָ֣ה בְמָלְכ֔וֹ וְעֶשְׂרִ֤ים וָתֵ֙שַׁע֙ שָׁנָ֔ה מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ אֲבִ֖י בַּת־זְכַרְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.son of.twenty and five year\[s\] he.was when he became.king and twenty and nine year\[s\] he.reigned in Jerusalem and the.name his.mother his \[was\].Abi the.daughter of.Zechariah

*JPS 1917:* Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

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