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title: אֲבִיטָל — Abital · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲבִיטָל (37), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Abital. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲבִיטָל

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«אֲבִיטָל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Abital** — 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:** 37 · **BDB:** אֲבִיטָ֑ל

### Glosses

Abital (1); of.Abital (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Abital [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/37/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/37/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (my father is (the) dew) a wife of David 2 S 3:4 1 Ch 3:3—אֲבִיָּם v. אֲבִיָּ֫הוּ.

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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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲבִיטָל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/37/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 3:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.3.4/)

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וְהָרְבִיעִ֖י אֲדֹנִיָּ֣ה בֶן־חַגִּ֑ית וְהַחֲמִישִׁ֖י שְׁפַטְיָ֥ה בֶן־אֲבִיטָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and.\[was\] the fourth Adonijah the.son of.Haggith and.\[was\] the fifth Shephatiah the.son of.Abital

*JPS 1917:* and the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah the son of Abital;

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[1 Chronicles 3:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.3.3/)

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הַחֲמִישִׁ֥י שְׁפַטְיָ֖ה לַאֲבִיטָ֑ל הַשִּׁשִּׁ֥י יִתְרְעָ֖ם לְעֶגְלָ֥ה אִשְׁתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* the fifth \[was\].Shephatiah of Abital the sixth \[was\].Ithream of Eglah wife his

*JPS 1917:* the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.

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