נְתַנְאֵל
Nethaneel
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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 H5417 appears in the Book of Ezra — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Ezra
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.
נתנאל — transliterated Nᵉthanʼêl — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Nethaneel.” Debuting at Numbers 1:8, it then recurs through the corpus. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 14 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in Numbers. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5417 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 →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 5 verses 36%
- 1 Chronicles 4 verses 29%
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 14%
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 14 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 9 verses · 64%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 36%
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: Nethaneel 13×
- American Standard Version: Nethanel 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Nethanel 13×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Nethanel 12×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5417 across 14 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5417 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5417 across 14 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 H5417 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
11 senses and sub-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 11 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 chief of Issachar Nu 1:8; 2:5; 7:18, 23; 10:15. e.g. Numbers 1:8
- 2. 4th son of Jesse 1 Ch 2:14. e.g. 1 Chronicles 2:14
- 3. name of priests:
- a. 1 Ch 15:24. e.g. 1 Chronicles 15:24
- b. Ne 12:21. e.g. Nehemiah 12:21
- 4. priest’s son (who had strange wife) Ezr 10:22, perhaps = Ne 12:36. e.g. Ezra 10:22
- 5. Levite name:
- a. 1 Ch 24:6. e.g. 1 Chronicles 24:6
- b. 26:4. e.g. 1 Chronicles 26:4
- c. 2 Ch 35:9. e.g. 2 Chronicles 35:9
- 6. a prince of Jehoshaphat 2 Ch 17:7. e.g. 2 Chronicles 17:7
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. (v. GrayProp. N. 181, 192, 205; on n.pr. of this kind cf. RSSem i. 100 n., 2nd ed. 108, GrayProp. N. 264);—𝔊 Ναθαναηλ;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נתן (nâthan) (H5414) — to give.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H5417 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| נְתַנְאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Numbers 1:8 | 4 |
| וְ/לִ/נְתַנְאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 17:7 | 1 |
| וּ/נְתַנְאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:4 | 1 |
| וּ/נְתַנְאֵ֜ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 35:9 | 1 |
| וּ/נְתַנְאֵ֡ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:24 | 1 |
| נְתַנְאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:22 | 1 |
| נְתַנְאֵ֣ל | Noun, Proper | Numbers 7:18 | 1 |
| נְתַנְאֵ֤ל | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 12:36 | 1 |
| נְתַנְאֵ֨ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 24:6 | 1 |
| נְתַנְאֵֽל | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 12:21 | 1 |
| נְתַנְאֵל֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5417, 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.
- נתן Nâthân H5416 Nathan
- נתניה Nᵉthanyâh H5418 Nethaniah
- נתןמלך Nᵉthan-Melek H5419 Nathan-melech
- Ναθαναηλ Nathanaḗl G3482 Nathanael
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — 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 (Nethaneel). 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
Given of God. (1.) The son of Zuar, chief of the tribe of Issachar at the Exodus (Num. 1:8; 2:5).
(2.) One of David's brothers (1 Chr. 2:14).
(3.) A priest who blew the trumpet before the ark when it was brought up to Jerusalem (1 Chr. 15:24).
(4.) A Levite (1 Chr. 24:6).
(5.) A temple porter, of the family of the Korhites (1 Chr. 26:4).
(6.) One of the "princes" appointed by Jehoshaphat to teach the law through the cities of Judah (2 Chr. 17:7).
(7.) A chief Levite in the time of Josiah (2 Chr. 35:9).
(8.) Ezra 10:22.
(9.) Neh. 12:21.
(10.) A priest's son who bore a trumpet at the dedication of the walls of Jerusalem (Neh. 12:36).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(given of God).
+ The son of Zuar and prince of the tribe of Issachar at the time of the exodus. (Numbers 1:8; 2:5; 7:18) (B.C. 1491.) + The fourth son of Jesse and brother of David. (1 Chronicles 2:14) + A priest in the reign of David who blew the trumpet before the ark when it was brought from the house of Obededom. (1 Chronicles 15:24) (B.C. 1055.) + A Levite, father of Shemaiah the scribe, in the reign of David. (1 Chronicles 24:6) + A son of Obed-edom. (1 Chronicles 26:4) + One of the princes of Judah whom Jehoshaphat sent to teach in the cities of his kingdom. (2 Chronicles 17:7) (B.C. 912.) + A chief of the Levites in the reign of Josiah. (2 Chronicles 35:9) (B.C. 628.) + A priest of the family of Pashur, in the time of Ezra, who married a foreign wife. (B.C. 458.) + The representative of the priestly family of Jedaiah in the time of Joiakim. (Nehemiah 12:21) (B.C. 446.) + A Levite, of the sons of Asaph, who with his brethren played upon the musical instruments of David at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem under Ezra and Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 12:36) (B.C. 446.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
same as Nathanael
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 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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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
