Lexical Definition

‎יְרַחְמְאֵלִי‎ Yᵉrachmᵉʼêlîy (yer-akh-meh-ay-lee') Jerahmeelite ^N:N--PG
patronymically from ‎יְרַחְמְאֵל‎

Jerahmeelites.

• § Jerahmeelites = see Jerahmeel "may God have pity"
• a Jerachmeelite or descendant of Jerachmeel

1) the descendants of Jerahmeel, the great grandson of Judah

Extended Information

group of: יְרַחְמְאֵל

• Someone descended from Jerahmeel who was a man of the tribe of Judah living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.27.10
• son of: Hezron (חֶצְרוֹן)
• brother of: Ram (רָם), Caleb (כָּלֵב), Segub (שְׂגוּב) and Ashhur (אַשְׁחוּר); married to Atarah (עֲטָרָה)
• father of: Ram (רָם), Bunah (בּוּנָה), Oren (אֹרֶן), Ozem (אֹצֶם), Ahijah (אֲחִיָּה) and Onam (אוֹנָם)
• Group of ye.rach.me.el (‎י‎ְ‎ר‎ַ‎ח‎ְ‎מ‎ְ‎א‎ֵ‎ל‎ "Jerahmeel" יְרַחְמְאֵל)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎יְרַחְמְאֵלִי‎ adjective, of a people (earlier than foregoing; as tribal name before proper name, masculine [For radical view of relations of ‎׳‎‎יְרַח‎, (with many textual emendations), see Che^{Ency. Bib. JERACHM}.]); — ‎׳‎‎הַיְּר‎ as substantive collective, ‎׳‎‎נֶגֶב היר‎ 1Sam 27:10 the Negeb of the Yerahmeelites (in southern Judah), (νότον) Ιεσμεγα, A Ισραμηλει, ᵐ5^L Αερμων; ‎׳‎‎עָרֵי היר‎ 1Sam 30:29, τοῦ Ισραηλ, A Ιεραμηλει (compare 1 above, and Gray^{Prop. N. 214, 265, 307}).

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