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title: חֹרֹנִי — Horonite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֹרֹנִי (2772), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: Horonite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֹרֹנִי

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«חֹרֹנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Horonite** — 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:** 2772 · **BDB:** חֹרֹנִי

### Glosses

Horonite (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Horonite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2772/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2772/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. v. id.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (1 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 «חֹרֹנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2772/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 13:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.13.28/)

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וּמִבְּנֵ֨י יוֹיָדָ֤ע בֶּן־אֶלְיָשִׁיב֙ הַכֹּהֵ֣ן הַגָּד֔וֹל חָתָ֖ן לְסַנְבַלַּ֣ט הַחֹרֹנִ֑י וָאַבְרִיחֵ֖הוּ מֵעָלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and one of.the.sons of.Joiada the.son of.Eliashib the priest (the) great \[was\].a.son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite and I drove.him.away from with me

*JPS 1917:* And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.

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[Nehemiah 2:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.2.10/)

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וַיִּשְׁמַ֞ע סַנְבַלַּ֣ט הַחֹרֹנִ֗י וְטֽוֹבִיָּה֙ הָעֶ֣בֶד הָֽעַמֹּנִ֔י וַיֵּ֥רַע לָהֶ֖ם רָעָ֣ה גְדֹלָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֥א אָדָ֔ם לְבַקֵּ֥שׁ טוֹבָ֖ה לִבְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.heard Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant the Ammonite and it.was.displeasing to them displeasure great (cmp) he.had.come someone to seek good for the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* And when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, for that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

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