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title: חֲכַלְיָה — Hachaliah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֲכַלְיָה (2446), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Hachaliah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֲכַלְיָה

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«חֲכַלְיָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Hachaliah** — 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:** 2446 · **BDB:** חֲכַלְיָה

### Glosses

of.Hacaliah (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Hachaliah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2446/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2446/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (meaning dub.; perhaps חַכֵּה לְיָהּ wait for Yahweh, √ חכה, so We?)—father of Nehemiah Ne 1:1, 𝔊 Χελκ(ε)ια, 𝔊L Χελκιασ(ου), א A Αχαλια; 10:2 𝔊 Αχελια, A 𝔊L Αχαλια.

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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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֲכַלְיָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2446/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 10:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.2/)

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וְעַ֖ל הַחֲתוּמִ֑ים נְחֶמְיָ֧ה הַתִּרְשָׁ֛תָא בֶּן־חֲכַלְיָ֖ה וְצִדְקִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] on the.sealed \[documents\] Nehemiah the governor the.son of.Hacaliah and Zedekiah

*JPS 1917:* Now those that set their seal were: Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zedekiah;

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[Nehemiah 1:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.1.1/)

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דִּבְרֵ֥י נְחֶמְיָ֖ה בֶּן־חֲכַלְיָ֑ה וַיְהִ֤י בְחֹֽדֶשׁ־כִּסְלֵיו֙ שְׁנַ֣ת עֶשְׂרִ֔ים וַאֲנִ֥י הָיִ֖יתִי בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן הַבִּירָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.words of.Nehemiah the.son of.Hacaliah and it.was in the.month of.Kislev year twenty and I I.was in Susa the citadel

*JPS 1917:* THE WORDS of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the castle,

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