Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H4250: מַחְלִי

Machlîy · pronounced makh-lee' · “Mahlite”

Definition

a Machlite or (collectively) descendants of Machli

KJV translates it as: Mahlites.

Word origin: patronymical from H4249 (מַחְלִי);

Extended definition

Someone descended from Mahli who was a man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.6.19;
son of: Merari (H4847);
brother of: Mushi (H4187) and Jaaziah (H3269);
father of: Libni (H3845H), Eleazar (H0499J) and Kish (H7027H)
Group of mach.li (מַחְלִי "Mahli" H4249)
§ Mahlites, of Mahli "my sickness"
descendants of Mahli, the grandson of Levi

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H4250 is translated

  • mahlites ×2

Bible verses with H4250 (Machlîy)

Machlîy appears in 2 verses.

  • Numbers 3:33

    Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites, and the family of the Mushites: these are the families of Merari.

  • Numbers 26:58

    These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.