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title: תּוֹלָעִי — Tolaites · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תּוֹלָעִי (8440), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Tolaites. BDB 1906: adj. gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תּוֹלָעִי

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«תּוֹלָעִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Tolaites** — 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:** 8440 · **BDB:** תּוֹלָעִי

### Glosses

the.Tolaite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Tolaites [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8440/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8440/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. gent. of foregoing; c. art. as n. coll. Nu 26:23.

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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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תּוֹלָעִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8440/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 26:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.23/)

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בְּנֵ֤י יִשָּׂשכָר֙ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֔ם תּוֹלָ֕ע מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַתּוֹלָעִ֑י לְפֻוָ֕ה מִשְׁפַּ֖חַת הַפּוּנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Issachar to clans their Tola the.clan of the.Tolaite\[s\] of Puah the.clan of the.Punite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Issachar after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the family of the Punites;

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