בְּצַלְאֵל
Bezaleel
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1212 appears in the Book of Exodus — 6 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus
- Exodus 31:2 בְּצַלְאֵ֛ל n Proper "Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
- Exodus 35:30 בְּצַלְאֵ֛ל n Proper Moses said to the children of Israel, "Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
- Exodus 36:1 בְצַלְאֵ֨ל n Proper "Bezalel and Oholiab shall work with every wise-hearted man, in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Yahweh has commanded."
- Exodus 36:2 בְּצַלְאֵ֘ל n Proper Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Yahweh had put wisdom, even everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to the work to do it:
- Exodus 37:1 בְּצַלְאֵ֛ל n Proper Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood. Its length was two and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
- Exodus 38:22 וּ/בְצַלְאֵ֛ל conj + n Proper Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Bezaleel” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name בצלאל (Bᵉtsalʼêl). More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in Exodus. It appears 9 verses across 4 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. First canonically at Exodus 31:2, it enters the text early. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1212 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 6 verses 67%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 11%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 11%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Bezaleel 9×
- American Standard Version: Bezalel 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bezalel 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bezalel 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1212 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1212 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1212 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1212 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. a skilled artisan of tribe of Judah Ex 31:2; 35:30; 36:1, 2; 37:1; 38:22 (all P) 1 Ch 2:20 2 Ch 1:5. e.g. Exodus 31:2
- 2. an Israelite Ezr 10:30. e.g. Ezra 10:30
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. (in the shadow (protection) of Ēl; cf. cuneif. Sil-Bêl, a king of Gaza, COT Jos 11:22)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from צל (tsêl) (H6738) — shadow.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בְּצַלְאֵל
- (b. h.) Bezaleel;
- 1. the artificer of the Tabernacle. Ber. 55ᵃ. Ex. R. s. 48; a. fr.
- 2. R. B., an Amora. Cant. R. to III, 11 ר׳ ברכיה בשם ר׳ ב׳ (Num. R. s. 12 בצלה; Pesik. Vayhi, p. 4ᵇ לוי; Yalk. Ex. 369 only בשם ר׳).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H1212 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּצַלְאֵ֛ל | Noun, Proper | Exodus 31:2 | 3 |
| בְצַלְאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:30 | 1 |
| בְצַלְאֵ֨ל | Noun, Proper | Exodus 36:1 | 1 |
| בְּצַלְאֵ֘ל | Noun, Proper | Exodus 36:2 | 1 |
| בְּצַלְאֵֽל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:20 | 1 |
| בְּצַלְאֵל֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 1:5 | 1 |
| וּ/בְצַלְאֵ֛ל | Noun, Proper | Exodus 38:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1212, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- צלה Tsillâh H6741 Zillah
- צלמנע Tsalmunnâʻ H6759 Zalmunna
- צלצח Tseltsach H6766 Zelzah
- צלתי Tsillᵉthay H6769 Zilthai
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 4 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Bezaleel). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
In the shadow of God; i.e., "under his protection", the artificer who executed the work of art in connection with the tabernacle in the wilderness (Ex. 31:2; 35:30). He was engaged principally in works of metal, wood, and stone; while Aholiab, who was associated with him and subordinate to him, had the charge of the textile fabrics (36:1, 2; 38:22). He was of the tribe of Judah, the son of Uri, and grandson of Hur (31:2). Mention is made in Ezra 10:30 of another of the same name.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(in the shadow of God).
+ The son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah and one of the architects of the tabernacle. (Exodus 31:1-6) His charge was chiefly in all works of metal, wood and stone. (B.C. 1490.) + One of the sons of Pahath-moab who had taken a foreign wife. (Ezra 10:30) (B.C. 458.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
in the shadow of God
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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