תְּעָלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8585

water-course — used 9 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

water-course tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּעָלָה: n.f. water-course tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. water-course;—ת׳ Je 30:13 +; cstr. תְּעָלַת Is 7:3 + 2 times; pl. sf. תְּעָלֹתֶיהָ Ez 31:4;— water-course, conducted for irrigation Ez 31:4; hence poet., channel for rain Jb 38:25. conduit, 2 K 18:17 = Is 36:2; Is 7:3, cf. 2 K 20:20. trench, 1 K 18:32, 35, 38.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the conduit (2); trench (2); a channel (1).

In the verses

Job 38:25 · tree →

מִֽי־פִלַּ֣ג לַשֶּׁ֣טֶף תְּעָלָ֑ה וְ֝דֶ֗רֶךְ לַחֲזִ֥יז קֹלֽוֹת׃

Word for word: who? does.he.divide for the flood a.channel and a.path for.[the] storm of.thunder.claps

JPS 1917: Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, or a way for the lightning of the thunder;

1 Kings 18:35 · tree →

וַיֵּלְכ֣וּ הַמַּ֔יִם סָבִ֖יב לַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ וְגַ֥ם אֶת־הַתְּעָלָ֖ה מִלֵּא־מָֽיִם׃

Word for word: and they.went the waters around (to) the altar and also (et) the trench he.filled water

JPS 1917: And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

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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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