Word

בַּרְזִלַּי

Barzillay · H1271 · Hebrew · proper noun · 12 occurrences

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This name belongs to 3 people

Meanings

  1. Barzillai

    A man from Rogelim in Gilead, an elder who supported King David

    Examples

    2 Samuel 17:27 Now when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,

    2 Samuel 19:31 Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim; and he went on to the Jordan with the king to escort him over the Jordan.

    2 Samuel 19:32 Barzillai was very old: eighty years old; and he had provided the king food while he stayed in Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

  2. Barzillai

    A man of the tribe of Levi and a descendant of priests, who after the exile married one of the descendants of Barzillai from Rogelim and adopted his name

    Examples

    Ezra 2:61 Of the sons of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and he was called by their name.

    Nehemiah 7:63 And of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai, the Gileadite, and was named after them.

  3. Barzillai

    A man from Meholah, father of Adriel, who was husband of Mical (or Merab), the daughter of Saul

    Examples

    2 Samuel 21:8 So the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Named alongside itApposition

6 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

6 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
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בַּרְזִלַּי, "Barzillai," names the elderly Gileadite who provided for David during Absalom's rebellion, as in 2 Samuel 17:27, functioning as a personal name.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1271. Barzillay בַּרְזִלַּי proper name, masculine (man of iron) **no adjective from…
H1271. Barzillay
בַּרְזִלַּי proper name, masculine (man of iron) **no adjective from names of metals; perhaps Aramaic, and בַּר = son NesZPV xv.257; AJSL Apr. 1897. 173. —
1 a Gileadite 2Sa 17:27; 2Sa 19:32; 2Sa 19:33; 2Sa 19:35; 2Sa 19:40; 1Ki 2:7; בַּרְזִלָּי֑ 2Sa 19:34; Ezr 2:61 = Neh 7:63 עַלשְֿׁמָם וַיִּקָּרֵא הַגִּלְעָדִי בַּרְזִלַּי מִבְּנוֺת לָקַח אֲשֶׁר בַרְזִלַּי בְּנֵי, where 2nd Barzillai = above, & former is
2 a priest Ezr 2:61 = Neh 7:63, who adopted name בַּרְזִלַּי.
3 2Sa 21:8 a Meholathite.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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