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title: חֶלְדַּי — Heldai · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֶלְדַּי (2469), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Heldai. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֶלְדַּי

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«חֶלְדַּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Heldai** — 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:** 2469 · **BDB:** חֶלְדַּי

### Glosses

Heldai (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Heldai [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2469/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2469/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. one of David’s heroes 1 Ch 27:15 (= חֵלֶד 11:30 = חֵלֶב 2 S 23:29) 𝔊 Χολδεια (—δαι), 𝔊L Ολδια. a returned exile Zc 6:10 (om. 𝔊) = חֵלֶם v 14.

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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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֶלְדַּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2469/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 27:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.15/)

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הַשְּׁנֵ֤ים עָשָׂר֙ לִשְׁנֵ֣ים עָשָׂ֣ר הַחֹ֔דֶשׁ חֶלְדַּ֥י הַנְּטוֹפָתִ֖י לְעָתְנִיאֵ֑ל וְעַל֙ מַחֲלֻקְתּ֔וֹ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָ֖ה אָֽלֶף׃פ

*Word for word:* the.two plus ten for two.plus ten the month Heldai the Netophathite of Othniel and.\[were\] with division his twenty and four thousand

*JPS 1917:* The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

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[Zechariah 6:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.6.10/)

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לָק֙וֹחַ֙ מֵאֵ֣ת הַגּוֹלָ֔ה מֵחֶלְדַּ֕י וּמֵאֵ֥ת טוֹבִיָּ֖ה וּמֵאֵ֣ת יְדַֽעְיָ֑ה וּבָאתָ֤ אַתָּה֙ בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֔וּא וּבָ֗אתָ בֵּ֚ית יֹאשִׁיָּ֣ה בֶן־צְפַנְיָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֖אוּ מִבָּבֶֽל׃

*Word for word:* take from with the exile\[s\] from Heldai and from with Tobiah and from with Jedaiah and you.will.go you on the day (the) that and you.will.go the.house Josiah the.son of.Zephaniah who they.have.come from Babylon

*JPS 1917:* 'Take of them of the captivity, even of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, that are come from Babylon; and come thou the same day, and go into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah;

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