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title: יְחִיָּה — Jehiah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יְחִיָּה (3174), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Jehiah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יְחִיָּה

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«יְחִיָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Jehiah** — 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:** 3174 · **BDB:** יְחִיָּה

### Glosses

Jehiah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Jehiah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3174/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3174/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (may Yah live) keeper of the ark 1 Ch 15:24 (𝔊 Ιε(α)ια, 𝔊L Ιειηλ).

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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 (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יְחִיָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3174/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 15:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.15.24/)

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וּשְׁבַנְיָ֡הוּ וְיֽוֹשָׁפָ֡ט וּנְתַנְאֵ֡ל וַעֲמָשַׂ֡י וּ֠זְכַרְיָהוּ וּבְנָיָ֤הוּ וֶֽאֱלִיעֶ֙זֶר֙ הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים מַחְצְרִים֙ בַּחֲצֹ֣צְר֔וֹת לִפְנֵ֖י אֲר֣וֹן הָֽאֱלֹהִ֑ים וְעֹבֵ֤ד אֱדֹם֙ עֹבֵ֤ד אֱדֹם֙ וִֽיחִיָּ֔ה שֹׁעֲרִ֖ים לָאָרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and Shebaniah and Joshaphat and Nethanel and Amasai and Zechariah and Benaiah and Eliezer the priests \[who\].blew.a.trumpet on trumpets before the.ark of.(the) God and Obed-Edom Obed-Edom and Jehiah gatekeepers for the ark

*JPS 1917:* And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

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