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title: עֵלִי — Eli · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֵלִי (5941), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 33 times: Eli. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. Eli. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֵלִי

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«עֵלִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Eli** — 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:** 33 times · **Key:** 5941 · **BDB:** עֵלִי

### Glosses

Eli (24); of.Eli (9)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Eli [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5941/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. Eli [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5941/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Eli, priest at Shiloh 1 S 1:3 (+ v 3 𝔊 Th Klo HPS), v 9, 12 + 28 times 1–4 + 14:3 1 K 2:27; Ηλει.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (24 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (17 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֵלִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5941/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 2:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.12/)

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וּבְנֵ֥י עֵלִ֖י בְּנֵ֣י בְלִיָּ֑עַל לֹ֥א יָדְע֖וּ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Eli \[were\].sons of.worthlessness not they.knew (et) Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not the LORD.

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[1 Samuel 1:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.1.25/)

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וַֽיִּשְׁחֲט֖וּ אֶת־הַפָּ֑ר וַיָּבִ֥יאוּ אֶת־הַנַּ֖עַר אֶל־עֵלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.slaughtered (et) the.young bull and they.brought (et) the lad to Eli

*JPS 1917:* And when the bullock was slain, the child was brought to Eli.

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