Word

חֹבָב

Chôbâb · H2246 · Hebrew · proper noun · 2 occurrences

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Person

Hobabfirst named in Numbers 10:292 verses

Meanings

Hobab

Man; son of Reuel; Midianite; ancestor of Kenites

Examples
Numbers 10:29 Then Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out to the place of which the LORD said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us and we will do you good, for the LORD has promised good concerning Israel.”
Judges 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בֵּןson 1
חָתַןfather-in-law, to intermarry 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 1

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

Names of People003001007: חֹבָב is the personal name Hobab, Moses's father-in-law or brother-in-law whom he asks to accompany Israel through the wilderness.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2246. Chobab חֹבָב proper name, masculine (compare Phoenician proper name חב; WeSkizzen…

H2246. Chobab
חֹבָב proper name, masculine (compare Phoenician proper name חב; WeSkizzen iii, 171. 217 suggests comparison with serpent) — son of Reuel, חֹתֵן of Moses (see חתן), Num 10:29 (J E), Jdg 4:11; insert ׳ח probably also Jdg 1:16, see GFM.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People2 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0