Hebrew word · H3181
יַחְמַי
veyachmai
Jahmai
Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.
What it means
A man of the tribe of Issachar living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at 1Ch.7.2;
son of: Tola (H8439);
brother of: Uzzi (H5813H), Rephaiah (H7509I), Jeriel (H3400), Ibsam (H3005) and Shemuel (H8050I)
§ Jahmai = "whom Jehovah guards"
a man of Issachar and one of the heads of the family of Tola
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
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Where it appears
1 Chronicles · 1
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1 Chronicles 7:2 וְיַחְמַ֨י and Jahmai
The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, the heads of their families. In the days of David, 22,600 descendants of Tola were numbered in their genealogies as mighty men of valor.
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