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title: חֵזִיר — Hezir · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֵזִיר (2387), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Hezir. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֵזִיר

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«חֵזִיר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Hezir** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 2387 · **BDB:** חֵזִיר

### Glosses

Hezir (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Hezir [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2387/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2387/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cf. inscr. in RA 1867, pl. 7, DrSm xxiii; Nö ZMG 1886, 162 ‘pointing ֵto avoid offence;’ but Nbr Acad. 1887, Dec. 17 comp. Talm \& 𝔗 (חַזּוּרָא, חֵיזוּר, חֲזוּרָא etc.) pomegranate (and apple; Syriac ܚܰܙܘܽܪ, ܚܰܙܘܽܪܳܐ), cf. בְּנֵי רִמּוֹן 2 S 4:2, 5, 9)— a priest of 17th course (assigned to David’s time) 1 Ch 24:15; 𝔊 Χηζειν (16th, v 14), but A Ιεζειρ, 𝔊L Χηζειρ. one of those sealed Ne 10:21; 𝔊 Ηζειρ, 𝔊L Αζηρ.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֵזִיר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2387/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 10:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.21/)

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מַגְפִּיעָ֥שׁ מְשֻׁלָּ֖ם חֵזִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* Magpiash Meshullam Hezir

*JPS 1917:* Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir;

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[1 Chronicles 24:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.24.15/)

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לְחֵזִיר֙ שִׁבְעָ֣ה עָשָׂ֔ר לְהַפִּצֵּ֖ץ שְׁמוֹנָ֥ה עָשָֽׂר׃

*Word for word:* to Hezir seven- teen to Happizzez eight- teen

*JPS 1917:* the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez;

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