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title: צִלְּתַי — Zilthai · The Tanakh dictionary
description: צִלְּתַי (6769), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Zilthai. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# צִלְּתַי

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«צִלְּתַי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Zilthai** — 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:** 6769 · **BDB:** צִלְּתַי

### Glosses

Zillethai (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Zilthai [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6769/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6769/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Thes expl. as צִלַּת יָהּ);— Benj., 1 Ch 8:20, Σελαθ(ε)ι. צִלְתָּ֑י, Manassite, 1 Ch 12:21 (van d. H. v 20), Σεμαθει, Σιλαθα, etc.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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 «צִלְּתַי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6769/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 8:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.20/)

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וֶאֱלִיעֵנַ֥י וְצִלְּתַ֖י וֶאֱלִיאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and Elienai and Zillethai and Eliel

*JPS 1917:* and Elienai, and Zillethai, and Eliel;

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[1 Chronicles 12:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.21/)

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בְּלֶכְתּ֣וֹ אֶל־צִֽיקְלַ֗ג נָפְל֣וּ עָלָ֣יו ׀ מִֽמְּנַשֶּׁ֡ה עַ֠דְנַח וְיוֹזָבָ֤ד וִידִֽיעֲאֵל֙ וּמִיכָאֵ֣ל וְיוֹזָבָ֔ד וֶאֱלִיה֖וּא וְצִלְּתָ֑י רָאשֵׁ֥י הָאֲלָפִ֖ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר לִמְנַשֶּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* when went he to Ziklag they.fell on him from Manasseh Adnach and Jozabad and Jediael and Michael and Jozabad and Elihu and Zillethai the.chiefs of the.thousands who \[belonged\].to Manasseh

*JPS 1917:* As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands that were of Manasseh.

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