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title: מַחֲוִים — Machavite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַחֲוִים (4233), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Machavite. BDB 1906: adj. gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַחֲוִים

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«מַחֲוִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Machavite** — 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:** 4233 · **BDB:** מַחֲוִים

### Glosses

Mahavite (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Machavite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4233/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4233/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** appar. adj. gent., only אֱלִיאֵל הַמּ׳ 1 Ch 11:46, but read prob. הַמַּחֲנִי (Be), v. מַחֲנַיִם n.pr.loc. sub חנה; Öt suggests also הַמְּעוֹנִי; 𝔊 ὁ Μιει, A ὁ Μαωειν, 𝔊L ὁ Μαωθε.

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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 (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַחֲוִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4233/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 11:46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.46/)

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אֱלִיאֵל֙ הַֽמַּחֲוִ֔ים וִירִיבַ֥י וְיוֹשַׁוְיָ֖ה בְּנֵ֣י אֶלְנָ֑עַם וְיִתְמָ֖ה הַמּוֹאָבִֽי׃

*Word for word:* Eliel the Mahavite and Jeribai and Joshaviah the.sons of.Elnaam and Ithmah the Moabite

*JPS 1917:* Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite;

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