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title: יְוָנִי — Jevanite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יְוָנִי (3125), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Jevanite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יְוָנִי

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«יְוָנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Jevanite** — 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:** 3125 · **BDB:** יְוָנִי

### Glosses

the.Greeks (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Jevanite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3125/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3125/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. only c. art. as n.pr.gent.: וּבְנֵי יְרוּשָׁלַםִ מְכַרְתֶּם לִבְנֵי הַיְּוָנִ֑ים Jo 4:6 (𝔊 Ἕλληνες) and the sons of Jerusalem ye have sold to the sons of the Ionians (cf. יָוָן Ez 27:13).—Vid. Staib.

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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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יְוָנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3125/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joel 4:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.6/)

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וּבְנֵ֤י יְהוּדָה֙ וּבְנֵ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם מְכַרְתֶּ֖ם לִבְנֵ֣י הַיְּוָנִ֑ים לְמַ֥עַן הַרְחִיקָ֖ם מֵעַ֥ל גְּבוּלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the.people of.Judah and the.people of.Jerusalem you.sold to the.people of the.Greeks so.as to remove.them.far.away from on territory their.own

*JPS 1917:* the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the sons of Jevanim, that ye might remove them far from their border;

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