פְּלֹנִי
pᵉlônîy · H6423 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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A referent to a single, indefinite person or place (certain (person, place))
ExamplesRuth 4:1 Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there, and behold, the redeemer of whom Boaz spoke was passing by, so he said, “Come over here, friend, sit down here.” And he came over and sat down.
1 Samuel 21:2 David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has commissioned me with a matter and has said to me, ‘No one is to know anything about the matter on which I am sending you and with which I have commissioned you; and I have directed the young men to a certain place.’
2 Kings 6:8 Now the king of Aram was making war against Israel; and he consulted with his servants, saying, “In such and such a place shall be my camp.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַלְמֹנִיcertain (person or place) 3
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָקוֹםplace 2
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- פַּלְמוֹנִי palmôwnîy · H6422 · whoever
- Both words are indefinite identifiers ("a certain person or place," "such-and-such"), used when the speaker withholds or does not specify a name, and serve the same pragmatic purpose in Hebrew.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Identifiers004003
- פְּלֹנִי is an indefinite placeholder meaning 'such a one' or 'a certain place,' as of the kinsman-redeemer addressed simply as 'friend' (literally 'such a one') in Ruth 4:1, and the unnamed place designated in 1 Samuel 21:2 and 2 Kings 6:8.
- Names of Groups003001006
- This lexeme's own tagged occurrences (Ruth 4:1, "come over here, friend"; 1 Samuel 21:3, 2 Kings 6:8) all function as an indefinite placeholder "a certain one/such a place," not a group name; this Names of Groups domain code is bundle-shared and carries no tagged occurrence of פְּלֹנִי (pᵉlônîy, H6423) independently attesting a group-name sense.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6423. peloni I. מְּלֹנִי pronoun a certain one; Greek ὁ, ἡ δεῖνα (according to Thes from…
I. מְּלֹנִי pronoun a certain one; Greek ὁ, ἡ δεῖνα (according to Thes from above √, through an unused noun מָּלֹן, properly one defined, a particular one: Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic , feminine ; Arabic WAG i.§ 353 R.c, voc. SiegfZW Th xxvii. 355; As pulpul HptBAS i. 114), always joined with צַלְמֹנִי (properly one not mentioned) in the sense of 'ein gewisser verschwiegener' (Ew§ 106 c, 2 Sta§ 150 b), 'a certain unnamed one', i.e. such a one; Rth 4:1 אַלְמֹנִי מְּלֹנִי שְׁבָהמֹּֿה sit down here, such a one (Greek ὦ οὖτος; Arabic ); in the phrase פ ׳מְקוֺם ׳א the place of such a one = such and such a place, 1Sa 21:3; 2Ki 6:8. From ׳פ ׳א arose by contraction (or conflation, PerlesAnal.82) מַּלְמֹנִי Dan 8:13 ׳לַמּ הַמְדַבֵּר ֗֗֗ ויאמר to that certain onewho spake. — II.
מְּלֹנִי see below.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
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