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title: סִבְּכַי — Sibbecai · The Tanakh dictionary
description: סִבְּכַי (5444), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Sibbecai. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# סִבְּכַי

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«סִבְּכַי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Sibbecai** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 5444 · **BDB:** סִבְּכַי

### Glosses

Sibbecai (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Sibbecai [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5444/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5444/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a captain of David; 𝔊 Σοβοχαι, etc.; 2 S 21:18 = 1 Ch 20:4, 1 Ch 11:29 + ‖ 2 S 23:27 where read ס׳ for MT מְבֻנַּ׳ Th We Dr Klo Bu Kit Löhr cf. HPS (B ἐκ τῶν υἱῶν, but 𝔊L Σαβενι); also 1 Ch 27:11.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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 «סִבְּכַי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5444/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 11:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.29/)

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סִבְּכַי֙ הַחֻ֣שָׁתִ֔י עִילַ֖י הָאֲחוֹחִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Sibbecai the Hushathite Ilai the Ahohite

*JPS 1917:* Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite;

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[1 Chronicles 27:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.27.11/)

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הַשְּׁמִינִי֙ לַחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִ֔י סִבְּכַ֥י הַחֻשָׁתִ֖י לַזַּרְחִ֑י וְעַל֙ מַחֲלֻקְתּ֔וֹ עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאַרְבָּעָ֖ה אָֽלֶף׃ס

*Word for word:* \[was\].the eighth for the month (the) eighth Sibbecai the Hushathite of the Zerahite\[s\] and.\[were\] with division his twenty and four thousand

*JPS 1917:* The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

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