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title: אֶתְנִי — Ethni · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֶתְנִי (867), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Ethni. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֶתְנִי

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«אֶתְנִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Ethni** — 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:** 867 · **BDB:** אֶתְנִי

### Glosses

of.Ethni (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Ethni [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/867/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/867/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. an ancestor of Asaph 1 Ch 6:26 apparently identical with יְאָֽתְרַי v 6.

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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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֶתְנִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/867/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Chronicles 6:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.26/)

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בֶּן־אֶתְנִ֥י בֶן־זֶ֖רַח בֶּן־עֲדָיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.son of.Ethni the.son of.Zerah the.son of.Adaiah

*JPS 1917:* the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah;

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