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title: קַלַּי — Kallai · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קַלַּי (7040), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Kallai. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קַלַּי

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«קַלַּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Kallai** — 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:** 7040 · **BDB:** קַלַּי²

### Glosses

Kallai (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Kallai [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7040/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7040/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. priest Ne 12:20, 𝔊L Καλμει.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קַלַּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7040/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 12:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.12.20/)

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לְסַלַּ֥י קַלָּ֖י לְעָמ֥וֹק עֵֽבֶר׃

*Word for word:* of Sallai Kallai of Amok Eber

*JPS 1917:* of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;

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