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title: קֵלָיָה — Kelaiah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קֵלָיָה (7041), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Kelaiah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קֵלָיָה

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«קֵלָיָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Kelaiah** — 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:** 7041 · **BDB:** קוֹלָיָה

### Glosses

Kelaiah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Kelaiah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7041/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7041/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (voice of י׳);— father of proph. Ahab Je 29:21. Benjamite Ne 11:7; Κοδια, A Κωλεια, 𝔊L Κολεια. Prob. also Levite Ezr 10:23, MT קֵלָיָה but 𝔊 Κωλεια, A Κωλαα (cf. GrayProp. N. 297).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 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 «קֵלָיָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7041/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 10:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.10.23/)

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וּמִֽן־הַלְוִיִּ֑ם יוֹזָבָ֣ד וְשִׁמְעִ֗י וְקֵֽלָיָה֙ ה֣וּא קְלִיטָ֔א פְּתַֽחְיָ֥ה יְהוּדָ֖ה וֶאֱלִיעֶֽזֶר׃ס

*Word for word:* and of the Levites Jozabad and Shimei and Kelaiah it \[is\].Kelita Pethahiah Judah and Eliezer

*JPS 1917:* And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah — the same is Kelita — Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

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