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title: כָּלִבִּי — Calebite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּלִבִּי (3614), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Calebite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּלִבִּי

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«כָּלִבִּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Calebite** — 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:** 3614 · **BDB:** כָּלִבִּי

### Glosses

\[was\].a.Calebite (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Calebite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3614/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3614/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of כָּלֵב 1 S 25:3 Qr (Kt כְּלִבּוֹ).

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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 (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּלִבִּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3614/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 25:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.3/)

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וְשֵׁ֤ם הָאִישׁ֙ נָבָ֔ל וְשֵׁ֥ם אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ אֲבִגָ֑יִל וְהָאִשָּׁ֤ה טֽוֹבַת־שֶׂ֙כֶל֙ וִ֣יפַת תֹּ֔אַר וְהָאִ֥ישׁ קָשֶׁ֛ה וְרַ֥ע מַעֲלָלִ֖ים וְה֥וּא כָלִבִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.name of the.man \[was\].Nabal and the.name his.wife his \[was\].Abigail and the woman \[was\].good of.insight and beautiful of.form and the man \[was\].hard and evil of.deeds and he \[was\].a.Calebite

*JPS 1917:* Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail; and the woman was of good understanding, and of a beautiful form; but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

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