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מְעוֹנֹתַי
me.o.no.tay
H4587
N:N-M-P Hebrew

Meonothai

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me.o.no.tay is the proper name of a person named as the father of Seraiah in a genealogy.

The attested form is used as a proper personal name in a genealogical statement: 1 Chronicles 4:14 names Meonothai as the father of Seraiah.

Senses in use

  1. Personal name in a genealogy · dominant

    In 1 Chronicles 4:14, the form is tagged as a proper noun and occurs in the clause identifying Seraiah by descent. The APB renders the statement, “Meonothai begot Ophrah, and Seraiah begot Joab,”.

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 1 Chronicles 4:14, the APB presents the name as “Meonothai” in a genealogical sequence. It does not by itself settle the form’s precise syntactic contribution.

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