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title: אֶצְבּוֹן — Ezbon · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֶצְבּוֹן (675), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Ezbon. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֶצְבּוֹן

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«אֶצְבּוֹן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ezbon** — 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:** 675 · **BDB:** אֶצְבּוֹן

### Glosses

Ezbon (1); \[were\].Ezbon (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ezbon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/675/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/675/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. אֶצְבֹּן a son of Gad (Sam. אצבעון, 𝔊 θασοβαν) Gn 46:16 = אָזְנִי Nu 26:16 (𝔊 Ἀζενει, Ἀζαν), this shorter form less probable. אֶצְבּוֹן a grandson of Benjamin 1 Ch 7:7 (𝔊 Ἀσεβων, Ἐσσεβων).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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 «אֶצְבּוֹן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/675/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 46:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.16/)

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וּבְנֵ֣י גָ֔ד צִפְי֥וֹן וְחַגִּ֖י שׁוּנִ֣י וְאֶצְבֹּ֑ן עֵרִ֥י וַֽאֲרוֹדִ֖י וְאַרְאֵלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Gad Zephon and Haggi Shuni and Ezbon Eri and Arodi and Areli

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

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[1 Chronicles 7:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.7/)

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וּבְנֵ֣י בֶ֗לַע אֶצְבּ֡וֹן וְעֻזִּ֡י וְ֠עֻזִּיאֵל וִירִימ֨וֹת וְעִירִ֜י חֲמִשָּׁ֗ה רָאשֵׁי֙ בֵּ֣ית אָב֔וֹת גִּבּוֹרֵ֖י חֲיָלִ֑ים וְהִתְיַחְשָׂ֗ם עֶשְׂרִ֤ים וּשְׁנַ֙יִם֙ אֶ֔לֶף וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֖ים וְאַרְבָּעָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Bela \[were\].Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth and Iri five heads of.a.house of.fathers mighty.\[men\] of.strength(s) and their.genealogical enrolment \[was\].twenty and two thousand and thirty and four

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers' houses, mighty men of valour; and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.

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