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title: יִתְרָא — Ithra · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יִתְרָא (3501), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Ithra. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יִתְרָא

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«יִתְרָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ithra** — 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:** 3501 · **BDB:** יִתְרָא

### Glosses

\[was\].Jether (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ithra [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3501/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3501/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of Amasa 2 S 17:25 (v. iii. יֶתֶר 3).

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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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יִתְרָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3501/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 17:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.17.25/)

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וְאֶת־עֲמָשָׂ֗א שָׂ֧ם אַבְשָׁלֹ֛ם תַּ֥חַת יוֹאָ֖ב עַל־הַצָּבָ֑א וַעֲמָשָׂ֣א בֶן־אִ֗ישׁ וּשְׁמוֹ֙ יִתְרָ֣א הַיִּשְׂרְאֵלִ֔י אֲשֶׁר־בָּא֙ אֶל־אֲבִיגַ֣ל בַּת־נָחָ֔שׁ אֲח֥וֹת צְרוּיָ֖ה אֵ֥ם יוֹאָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Amasa he.had.appointed Absalom in.place.of Joab over the army and Amasa \[was\].a.son of.a.man and name his \[was\].Jether the Israelite who he.had.gone into Abigail the.daughter of.Nahash the.sister of.Zeruiah the.mother of.Joab

*JPS 1917:* And Absalom had set Amasa over the host instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Jesraelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.

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