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title: אֲבִיהוּא — Abihu · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲבִיהוּא (30), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: Abihu. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲבִיהוּא

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«אֲבִיהוּא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Abihu** — 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:** 12 times · **Key:** 30 · **BDB:** אֲבִיהוּא

### Glosses

Abihu (12)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Abihu [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/30/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/30/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (he is father) a son of Aaron Ex 6:23; 24:1, 9; 28:1 Lv 10:1 + 7 times.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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 «אֲבִיהוּא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/30/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 24:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.24.9/)

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וַיַּ֥עַל מֹשֶׁ֖ה וְאַהֲרֹ֑ן נָדָב֙ וַאֲבִיה֔וּא וְשִׁבְעִ֖ים מִזִּקְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.up Moses and Aaron Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the.elders of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel;

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[Numbers 3:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.2/)

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וְאֵ֛לֶּה שְׁמ֥וֹת בְּֽנֵי־אַהֲרֹ֖ן הַבְּכ֣וֹר ׀ נָדָ֑ב וַאֲבִיה֕וּא אֶלְעָזָ֖ר וְאִיתָמָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and these \[are\].the.names of.the.sons of.Aaron the firstborn Nadab and Abihu Eleazar and Ithamar

*JPS 1917:* And these are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the first-born, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

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