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title: כְּלוּב — Chelub · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּלוּב (3620), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Chelub. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּלוּב

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«כְּלוּב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Chelub** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 3620 · **BDB:** כְּלוּב

### Glosses

Kelub (1); of.Kelub (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Chelub [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3620/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3620/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a name in Judah 1 Ch 4:11, 𝔊 Χαλεβ (according to WeCentib. 20, Hist. 218 = כָּלֵב בֶּן־חֶזְרוֹן; read also for כַּרְמִי v 1). father of one of David’s officers, according to 1 Ch 27:26 (𝔊 Χοβουδ, A Χελουβ, 𝔊L Χαλουβ).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּלוּב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3620/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 4:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.11/)

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וּכְל֥וּב אֲחִֽי־שׁוּחָ֖ה הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־מְחִ֑יר ה֖וּא אֲבִ֥י אֶשְׁתּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and Kelub the.brother of.Shuhah he.fathered (et) Mehir he \[was\].the.father of.Eshton

*JPS 1917:* And Chelub the brother of Shuhah begot Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

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[1 Chronicles 27:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.26/)

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וְעַ֗ל עֹשֵׂי֙ מְלֶ֣אכֶת הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה לַעֲבֹדַ֖ת הָאֲדָמָ֑ה עֶזְרִ֖י בֶּן־כְּלֽוּב׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] over the.doers of.the.work of the.field for the.labor of the.ground Ezri the.son of.Kelub

*JPS 1917:* and over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub;

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