Every Name in Tanakh

מַחְלִי Mahli

Every verse in which this name stands — 12 places, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PersonGematria 88×12 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

Strong's records this name for two Israelites. The name stands twelve times in the Tanakh, first at Exodus 6:19 and last at 1 Chronicles 24:30.

Exodus 6:19שמות ו:יט

וּבְנֵי מְרָרִי מַחְלִי וּמוּשִׁי אֵלֶּה מִשְׁפְּחֹת הַלֵּוִי לְתֹלְדֹתָֽם

And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

Numbers 3:20במדבר ג:כ

וּבְנֵי מְרָרִי לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָם מַחְלִי וּמוּשִׁי אֵלֶּה הֵם מִשְׁפְּחֹת הַלֵּוִי לְבֵית אֲבֹתָֽם

And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’houses.

Ezra 8:18עזרא ח:יח

וַיָּבִיאּוּ לָנוּ כְּיַד־אֱלֹהֵינוּ הַטּוֹבָה עָלֵינוּ אִישׁ שֶׂכֶל מִבְּנֵי מַחְלִי בֶּן־לֵוִי בֶּן־יִשְׂרָאֵל וְשֵׁרֵֽבְיָה וּבָנָיו וְאֶחָיו שְׁמֹנָה עָשָֽׂר

And according to the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel; and Sherebiah, with his sons and his brethren, eighteen;

1 Chronicles 6:4דברי הימים א ו:ד

בְּנֵי מְרָרִי מַחְלִי וּמֻשִׁי וְאֵלֶּה מִשְׁפְּחוֹת הַלֵּוִי לַאֲבוֹתֵיהֶֽם

The sons of Merari: Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’houses.

1 Chronicles 24:30דברי הימים א כד:ל

וּבְנֵי מוּשִׁי מַחְלִי וְעֵדֶר וִירִימוֹת אֵלֶּה בְּנֵי הַלְוִיִּם לְבֵית אֲבֹתֵיהֶֽם

And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after their fathers’houses.

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Mahli?

Mahli — מחלי in Hebrew — has a gematria of 88 in the standard method.

How many times is Mahli named in the Tanakh?

12 times, first at Exodus 6:19.

A spelling is not a name. The written word מחלי stands 14 times in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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