מָלַל

Biblical Hebrew

languish — used 7 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

languish tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָלַל³: vb. languish, wither, fade Poʿl;. tree →

The whole BDB entry

vb. languish, wither, fade (apparently secondary √ of אמל q.v.);— Impf. 3 ms. יִמַּל Jb 18:16; וַיִּמָּ֑ל Jb 14:2; 3 mpl. יִמָּ֑לוּ Jb 24:24 ψ 37:2 (so Hup De and most; > Niph. from IV. מלל Thes);—hang down, wither, fig. of man Jb 14:2 (כְּצִיץ); of wicked מִתַּחַת שָֽׁרָשָׁיו יִבָ֑שׁוּ וּמִ֫מַּעַל יִמַּל קְצִירוֹ 18:16; כְּרֹאשׁ שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת יִמָּ֑לוּ 24:24 (‖ יִקָּפְצוּן, הֻמְּכוּ); כֶּחָצִיר מְהֵרָה יִמָּ֑לוּ ψ 37:2 (‖ יִבּוֹלוּן). Poʿl;. Impf. יְמוֹלֵל ψ 90:6 it withereth (of grass; + וְיָבֵשׁ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: [he is] scraping (1); circumcise (1); he withered (1).

In the verses

Job 18:16 · tree →

מִ֭תַּחַת שָֽׁרָשָׁ֣יו יִבָ֑שׁוּ וּ֝מִמַּ֗עַל יִמַּ֥ל קְצִירֽוֹ׃

Word for word: (from) beneath roots his they.are.dried.up and (from) above it.withers branch[es] his

JPS 1917: His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.

Psalms 58:8 · tree →

יִמָּאֲס֣וּ כְמוֹ־מַ֭יִם יִתְהַלְּכוּ־לָ֑מוֹ יִדְרֹ֥ךְ חִ֝צָּ֗יו כְּמ֣וֹ יִתְמֹלָֽלוּ׃

Word for word: may.they.flow like waters [which].they.go.about (for themselves may.he.bend arrows his like let.them.be.cut.off

JPS 1917: Let them melt away as water that runneth apace; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

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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