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title: שֵׁלָנִי — Shelanites · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֵׁלָנִי (8024), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Shelanites. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֵׁלָנִי

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«שֵׁלָנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Shelanites** — 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:** 8024 · **BDB:** שֵׁלָנִי

### Glosses

the.Shelahite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Shelanites [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8024/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8024/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of foreg.: c. art. as n.coll. הַשּׁ׳ Nu 26:20 (P). So read also 1 Ch 9:5; Ne 11:5, v. שִׁילֹנִי.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֵׁלָנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8024/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 26:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.20/)

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וַיִּהְי֣וּ בְנֵי־יְהוּדָה֮ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם֒ לְשֵׁלָ֗ה מִשְׁפַּ֙חַת֙ הַשֵּׁ֣לָנִ֔י לְפֶ֕רֶץ מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַפַּרְצִ֑י לְזֶ֕רַח מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַזַּרְחִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and they.were the.descendants of.Judah to clans their of Shelah the.clan of the.Shelahite\[s\] of Perez the.clan of the.Perezite\[s\] of Zerah the.clan of the.Zerahite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

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