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title: זַרְחִי — Zarchite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זַרְחִי (2227), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: Zarchite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זַרְחִי

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«זַרְחִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Zarchite** — 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:** 2227 · **BDB:** זַרְחִי

### Glosses

the.Zerahite\[s\] (4); Zerahite\[s\] (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Zarchite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2227/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2227/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. always c. art. as subst. coll. הַזּ׳: from זֶרַח 1:—Jos 7:17(×2)17 (JE), Nu 26:20 (P), cf. לַזּ׳ 1 Ch 27:11, 13. from זֶרַח 4:—Nu 26:13.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זַרְחִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2227/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 26:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.13/)

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לְזֶ֕רַח מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַזַּרְחִ֑י לְשָׁא֕וּל מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשָּׁאוּלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* of Zerah the.clan of the.Zerahite\[s\] of Shaul the.clan of the.Shaulite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.

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[1 Chronicles 27:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.11/)

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הַשְּׁמִינִי֙ לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִ֔י סִבְּכַ֥י הַחֻשָׁתִ֖י לַזַּרְחִ֑י וְעַל֙ מַחֲלֻקְתּ֔וֹ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָ֖ה אָֽלֶף׃ס

*Word for word:* \[was\].the eighth for the month (the) eighth Sibbecai the Hushathite of the Zerahite\[s\] and.\[were\] with division his twenty and four thousand

*JPS 1917:* The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

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