פְּלוֹנִי
Pelonite
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Pelonite’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H6397 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
1 Chronicles 3 verses
- 1 Chronicles 11:27 הַ/פְּלוֹנִֽי ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,
- 1 Chronicles 11:36 הַ/פְּלֹנִֽי ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
- 1 Chronicles 27:10 הַ/פְּלוֹנִ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms The seventh [captain] for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
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.
At its core, פלוני (Pᵉlôwnîy) means “Pelonite.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. The word gravitates to 1 Chronicles (100%). First canonically at 1 Chronicles 11:27, it enters the text early. 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 H6397 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 3 verses 100%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 100%
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: Pelonite 3×
- American Standard Version: Pelonite 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pelonite 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pelonite 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6397 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6397 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6397 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6397 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Pelonite = "a certain one"
- the inhabitants of a presently unknown place
Word origin
adj.gent. erron.: c. art. הַפְּלוֹנִי 1 Ch 11:27; 27:10 read הַפַּלְטִי as 2 S 23:26 (v. בֵּית פָּ֑לֶט); הַפְּלֹנִי 1 Ch 11:36 read הַגִּלֹנִי, as 2 S 23:34.—i. פְּלֹנִי v. פלה.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from פלה (pâlâh) (H6395) — to distinguish.
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.
פְּלוֹנִי
- a specified person or thing, such and such, name ‘blank’ (abbrev. פלו׳). Gitt. VI, 3 במקים פ׳ in such and such a place. Y. ib. VIII, end, 49ᵈ (in a document) אני פ׳ בן פ׳ I—, son of—. Kidd. 65ᵃ קידשתיך בפני פ׳ ופ׳ והלכו וכ׳ I betrothed thee unto me in the presence of—and—, and they have left &c. Tosef. Yeb. III, 4 ופ׳ מהו לעה"ב and will such and such a man have a share in the hereafter?; דומה שלא שאלתם אלא על פ׳ it seems to me that you inquired about such and such (naming some one else); Yoma 66ᵇ; a. fr.—Koh. R. to I, 8, v. יֵשׁוּ.—Fem. פְּלוֹנִית, פְּלֹנִית. Kidd. III, 1 צא וקדש לי אשה פ׳ go and betroth for me that certain woman. Y. Sot. VI, 21ᵃ top פ׳ כהנת וכ׳ such and such is a priest’s daughter, and she has prostituted herself &c.; a. fr.—Ch. פְּלַן.
פְּלַן
- m. = h. פְּלוֹנִי. Y. Kidd. III, 63ᵈ top אנא פ׳ בר פ׳ … ליך אנת פלנית בת פ׳ … מיקמת פ׳ וכ׳ I—son of—betroth thee—daughter of—, with the condition that I give thee an estate bearing the name of—, and to marry thee on the day—&c. Y. Yeb. IV, 6ᵃ bot. ביום פ׳ on such and such a day (naming the date). Gen. R. s. 21, beg. (ref. to לפלמוני Dan. VIII, 13) לפלניא (some ed. לפְלַנְיָיה) to a certain defined person; Yalk. Dan. 1066. Koh. R. to X, 5 פסוק פ׳ בתר פ׳ I recited that certain verse, and then that. Gitt. 69ᵇ (in an incantation) פלוני בר פלוניתא thou—, son of—; a. v. fr.—Fem. פְּלָנִית, פְּלָנִיתָא, פְּלַנְתָּא, (פְּלוֹנִיתָא). Y. Keth. VIII, 31ᶜ אין הדא פ׳ תסבי להדין פלוני בעלה וכ׳ if that woman—be married to that man—, her betrothed husband, and &c. Pes. 112ᵃ; a. v. fr. e.g. Daniel 8:13
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 3 distinct written forms H6397 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/פְּלֹנִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 11:36 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּלוֹנִ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 27:10 | 1 |
| הַ/פְּלוֹנִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 11:27 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6397, 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.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Pelonite). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
falling; secret
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 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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