תַּלְמַי
Talmai
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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 H8526 appears — 6 distinct verses across 5 books. 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.
Numbers 1 verse
Joshua 1 verse
Judges 1 verse
2 Samuel 2 verses
- 2 Samuel 3:3 תַּלְמַ֖י n Proper and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
- 2 Samuel 13:37 תַּלְמַ֥י n Proper But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. [David] mourned for his son every day.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
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.
“Talmai” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name תלמי (Talmay). First canonically at Numbers 13:22, it enters the text early. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 6 verses — uncommon. More than a third of its appearances fall in 2 Samuel. See 6-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8526 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 →
- 6
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 6 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,040
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,040 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 6 occurrences in the concordance →
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 6 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 67%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 17%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 17%
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: Talmai 6×
- American Standard Version: Talmai 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Talmai 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Talmai 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8526 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8526 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8526 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8526 across 6 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. king of Geshur, father-in-law of David, 2 S 3:3; 13:37; 1 Ch 3:2. e.g. 2 Samuel 3:3
- 2. a son of ʿAnaḳ Nu 13:22; Jos 15:14, תַּלְמָ֑י Ju 1:10; Θομμει, Θολμει, Θαλαμειν, etc. e.g. Numbers 13:22
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
Derived from תלם (telem) (H8525) — furrow.
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.
תַּלְמַי I
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Talmai, one of the giants (Anakim). Yoma 13ᵃ; Sot. 34ᵇ, a. e., v. תֶּלֶם, a. תַּלְבּוּשׁ.
תַּלְמַי II
- (Hebrew adaptation) p. n. m. Ptolemæus. Ptolemy,
- 1. King of Adiabene, father of Monobazus and Izates. Gen. R. s. 46 (Jos. Ant. XX, 2, 1 Monobazus), v. מוּנְבָּז
- 2. king of Egypt (Ptolemy II Philadelphus), during whose reign the Septuagint is said to have been produced. Treat. Sof’rim I, 7 מעשה בחמשה … לת׳ המלך וכ׳ it occurred that five elders wrote the Torah in Greek for King Ptolemy, and that day was as ominous for Israel as &c. Ib. 8 שוב מעשה בת׳ וכ׳ another time it occurred that King P. assembled seventy-two elders &c.; Meg. 9ᵃ. Ib.; Y. ib. I, 71ᵈ bot. שלשה … לת׳ המלך thirteen passages the scholars changed (in their translation) for King P.; Gen. R. s. 38 (ref. to Gen. XI, 7) זה … לת׳ המלך this is one of the texts they changed for King P.; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 11:7
*תַּלְמִי
- (θαλάμη) nostril; (cmp. חוֹטָם) snout, tube. Tosef. Mikv. IV, 8 מעיין היוצא לת׳ ומן הת׳ וכ׳ spring water that comes out through a snout, and flows from the snout into a pond.
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 5 distinct written forms H8526 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| תַּלְמַ֖י | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 3:2 | 2 |
| וְ/תַלְמַ֔י | Noun, Proper | Numbers 13:22 | 1 |
| תַּלְמַ֔י | Noun, Proper | Joshua 15:14 | 1 |
| תַּלְמַ֥י | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 13:37 | 1 |
| תַּלְמָֽי | Noun, Proper | Judges 1:10 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Talmai). 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
Abounding in furrows. (1.) One of the Anakim of Hebron, who were slain by the men of Judah under Caleb (Num. 13:22; Josh. 15:14; Judg. 1:10).
(2.) A king of Geshur, to whom Absalom fled after he had put Amnon to death (2 Sam. 3:3; 13:37). His daughter, Maachah, was one of David's wives, and the mother of Absalom (1 Chr. 3:2).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(bold).
+ One of the three sons of "the Anak" who were slain by the men of Judah. (Numbers 13:22; Joshua 15:14; Judges 1:10) (B.C. 1450.) + Son of Ammihud king of Geshur. (2 Samuel 3:3; 13:37; 1 Chronicles 3:2) He was probably a petty chieftain, dependent on David. (B.C. 1040.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
my furrow; that suspends the waters; heap of waters
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 6 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 6 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.
