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title: אַחְזַי — Ahasai · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַחְזַי (273), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Ahasai. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַחְזַי

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«אַחְזַי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ahasai** — 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:** 273 · **BDB:** אֲחַזְיָ֫הוּ

### Glosses

of.Ahzai (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ahasai [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/273/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/273/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Yah(u) hath grasped; 𝔊 Ὀχοζ(ε)ιας 1 K 22:52 etc., cf. LagBN 53) king of Isr., son of Ahab 1 K 22:40, 50, 52 2 K 1:18 2 Ch 20:37 (אֲחַזְיָהוּ); + 2 K 1:2 2 Ch 20:35 (אֲחַזְיָה). king of Judah, son of Joram 2 K 8:24, 25; 9:21; 10:13; 11:1; 12:19; 13:1; 14:13 1 Ch 3:11 2 Ch 22:1 + 2 K 1 Ch (all אֲחַזְיָהוּ); 2 K 9:16, 23, 27, 29; 11:2 (אֲחַזְיָה). אַחְזַי a priest Ne 11:13 (for which יַחְזֵרָה 1 Ch 9:12 v. SmListen, Tafel). cf. Arabic احّ viii, + إِخّ = adopt, hence perhaps י׳ hath adopted.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַחְזַי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/273/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 11:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.13/)

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וְאֶחָיו֙ רָאשִׁ֣ים לְאָב֔וֹת מָאתַ֖יִם אַרְבָּעִ֣ים וּשְׁנָ֑יִם וַעֲמַשְׁסַ֧י בֶּן־עֲזַרְאֵ֛ל בֶּן־אַחְזַ֥י בֶּן־מְשִׁלֵּמ֖וֹת בֶּן־אִמֵּֽר׃

*Word for word:* and brothers his heads of fathers two.hundred forty and two and Amashsai the.son of.Azarel the.son of.Ahzai the.son of.Meshillemoth the.son of.Immer

*JPS 1917:* and his brethren, chiefs of fathers' houses, two hundred forty and two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,

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