מַחְלוֹן
Machlôwn · H4248 · Hebrew · proper noun · 4 occurrences
Person
- Mahlonfirst named in Ruth 1:24 verses
Meanings
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Mahlon
A son of Elimelech and Naomi of Bethlehem in Judah and first husband of Ruth the Moabitess
ExamplesRuth 1:2 The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. So they entered the land of Moab and remained there.
Ruth 1:5 Then both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and the woman was left without her two sons and her husband.
Ruth 4:9 Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and Mahlon.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםtheir 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שֵׁםname 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 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
- Mahlon names Naomi's son and Ruth's first husband, whose death set in motion the events of the book of Ruth (Ruth 1:2, 5; 4:9-10).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4248. Machlon מַחְלוֺן proper name, masculine son of Elimelech and Naomi, first husband…
מַחְלוֺן proper name, masculine son of Elimelech and Naomi, first husband of Ruth, Rth 1:2, Rth 1:5; Rth 4:9-10, ᵐ5 Μααλων.
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
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
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