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title: חֲמוּטַל — Hamutal · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֲמוּטַל (2537), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Hamutal. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֲמוּטַל

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«חֲמוּטַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Hamutal** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 2537 · **BDB:** חֲמוּטַל

### Glosses

\[was\].Hamutal (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Hamutal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2537/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2537/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** Qr, חמיטל Kt, n.pr.f. (meaning dub.; perhaps, if Kt right, my husband’s father is the dew, cf. אֲבִיטַל)—𝔊 Αμειται, Μιτατ; A Αμιταλ, Αμιταθ; 𝔊L Αμιταλ;—mother of the kings Jehoahaz and Zedekiah, sons of Josiah 2 K 23:31; 24:18 Qr (Kt חמיטל) = Je 52:1 Qr (Kt id.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֲמוּטַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2537/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 23:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.23.31/)

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בֶּן־עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְשָׁלֹ֤שׁ שָׁנָה֙ יְהוֹאָחָ֣ז בְּמָלְכ֔וֹ וּשְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה חֳדָשִׁ֔ים מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ חֲמוּטַ֥ל בַּֽת־יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ מִלִּבְנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].a.son of.twenty and three year\[s\] Jehoahaz when he became.king and three months he.reigned in Jerusalem and the.name his.mother his \[was\].Hamutal the.daughter of.Jeremiah from Libnah

*JPS 1917:* Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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[2 Kings 24:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.24.18/)

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בֶּן־עֶשְׂרִ֨ים וְאַחַ֤ת שָׁנָה֙ צִדְקִיָּ֣הוּ בְמָלְכ֔וֹ וְאַחַ֤ת עֶשְׂרֵה֙ שָׁנָ֔ה מָלַ֖ךְ בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וְשֵׁ֣ם אִמּ֔וֹ חֲמוּטַ֥ל בַּֽת־יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ מִלִּבְנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[was\].a.son of.twenty and one year\[s\] Zedekiah when he became.king and one.plus ten year\[s\] he.reigned in Jerusalem and the.name his.mother his \[was\].Hamutal the.daughter of.Jeremiah from Libnah

*JPS 1917:* Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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