Hebrew n--lg · H4259
מְחֹלָתִי
Mecholathimekh-o-law-thee'
Meholathite
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Mᵉchôlâthîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4259is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4259
a Mecholathite or inhabitant of Abel-Mecholah
The King James renders it: Mecholathite.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Mecholathi is rendered "Meholathite". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 18:19So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.
1 Samuel 18:19הַמְּחֹלָתִ֖י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the Meholathite2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מְחֹלָה | mecholah | dance | Uses8 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַמְּחֹלָתִ֖י1
- הַמְּחֹלָתִֽי׃1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)2HTd/Ngmsa
1 Samuel
one use
So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.
- הַמְּחֹלָתִ֖יhamecholatithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Meholathite
2 Samuel
one use
But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
- הַמְּחֹלָתִֽי׃hamecholatithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Meholathite
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.