King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2387
Transliteration: Chezir
Phonetic Spelling: (khay-zeer')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: two Israelites
Meaning: Hezir -- two Israelites
Word Summary
Chezir: two Israelites
Original Word: חֵזִירTransliteration: Chezir
Phonetic Spelling: (khay-zeer')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: two Israelites
Meaning: Hezir -- two Israelites
Strong's Concordance
Hezir From the same as chaziyr; perhaps protected; Chezir, the name of two Israelites -- Hezir.
see HEBREW chaziyr
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2387. Chezir
חֵזִיר proper name, masculine (compare inscription in RA1867, plural 7, DrSm xxiii; NöZMG 1886, 162 'pointing — ֵ֯ to avoid offence;' but NbrAcad. 1887, Dec. 17 compare Talmud & ᵑ7 (חֲזוּרָא חֵיזוּר, חַזּוּרָא, etc.) pomegranate (and apple; Syriac , ), compare רִמּוֺן בְּנֵי 2 Samuel 4:2, 5, 9) —
1 a priest of 17th course (assigned to David's time) 1 Chronicles 24:15; ᵐ5 Χηξειν (16th, 24:14), but A Ιεξειρ, ᵐ5L Χηξειρ.
2 one of those sealed Nehemiah 10:21; ᵐ5 Ηξειρ, ᵐ5L Αξηρ.