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title: אֲבִינָדָב — Abinadab · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲבִינָדָב (41), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: Abinadab. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲבִינָדָב

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«אֲבִינָדָב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Abinadab** — 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:** 13 times · **Key:** 41 · **BDB:** אֲבִינָדָב

### Glosses

Abinadab (7); of.Abinadab (5); \[was\].Abinadab (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Abinadab [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/41/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/41/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (my father is noble) a man of Gibeah in whose house the ark tarried 1 S 7:1 2 S 6:3(×2), 4 1 Ch 13:7. a son of Jesse 1 S 16:8; 17:13; 1 K 4:11 (? perhaps otherwise unknown; Klo proposes אֲבִינֵר בְּ). a son of Saul 1 S 31:2 1 Ch 8:33; 9:39; 10:2.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 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 «אֲבִינָדָב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/41/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 4:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.11/)

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בֶּן־אֲבִֽינָדָ֖ב כָּל־נָ֣פַת דֹּ֑אר טָפַת֙ בַּת־שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה הָ֥יְתָה לּ֖וֹ לְאִשָּֽׁה׃ס

*Word for word:* Ben- Abinadab all the.height of.Dor Taphath the.daughter of.Solomon she.became for him (into).a wife

*JPS 1917:* the son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife;

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[1 Chronicles 2:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.13/)

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וְאִישַׁ֛י הוֹלִ֥יד אֶת־בְּכֹר֖וֹ אֶת־אֱלִיאָ֑ב וַאֲבִינָדָב֙ הַשֵּׁנִ֔י וְשִׁמְעָ֖א הַשְּׁלִישִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* and Jesse he.fathered (et) firstborn his (et) Eliab and Abinadab \[was\].the second and Shimea \[was\].the third

*JPS 1917:* and Jesse begot his first-born Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimea the third;

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