דַּלָּה

Biblical Hebrew

the poor — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

the poor tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דַּלָּה²: n.f. the poor tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. the poor—cstr. דַּלַּת Je 40:7 + 2 times; pl. דַּלּוֹת Je 52:15, 16;—the poor (coll., weak, helpless ones) Je 40:7 2 K 24:14; 25:12 (in ‖ Je 52:16, as also v 15, MT has strangely the pl.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of the poor people (3); of the poor (1); the poor people (1).

In the verses

2 Kings 25:12 · tree →

וּמִדַּלַּ֣ת הָאָ֔רֶץ הִשְׁאִ֖יר רַב־טַבָּחִ֑ים לְכֹֽרְמִ֖ים וּלְיֹגְבִֽים׃

Word for word: and some of.the.poor of the.land he.left.behind [the].chief of.[the].bodyguards to vinedressers and to husbandmen

JPS 1917: But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

Jeremiah 52:16 · tree →

וּמִדַּלּ֣וֹת הָאָ֔רֶץ הִשְׁאִ֕יר נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ן רַב־טַבָּחִ֑ים לְכֹרְמִ֖ים וּלְיֹגְבִֽים׃

Word for word: and some of.the.poor.people of the.land he.left.behind Nebuzaradan [the].chief of.[the].bodyguards to vinedressers and to husbandmen

JPS 1917: But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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