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title: חֶפְרִי — Hepherites · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֶפְרִי (2662), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Hepherites. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֶפְרִי

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«חֶפְרִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Hepherites** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2662 · **BDB:** חֶפְרִי

### Glosses

the.Hepherite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Hepherites [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2662/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2662/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of i. חֵפֶר a; only c. art. as n.pr. coll. הַח׳ Nu 26:32.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֶפְרִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2662/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 26:32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.32/)

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וּשְׁמִידָ֕ע מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַשְּׁמִידָעִ֑י וְחֵ֕פֶר מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַֽחֶפְרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and Shemida the.clan of the.Shemidaite\[s\] and Hepher the.clan of the.Hepherite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

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