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# אֶגְלַיִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H97

**Eglaim** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Eglaim [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/97/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֶגְלַ֫יִם: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/97/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. town in Moab Is 15:8; (meaning?);? cf. Αἰγαλειμ (Euseb.) 9 m. S. of Areopolis; v. LagOnom.228, 98; ed. 2, p. 244.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 15:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.15.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.15.8/#tree)

כִּֽי־הִקִּ֥יפָה הַזְּעָקָ֖ה אֶת־גְּב֣וּל מוֹאָ֑ב עַד־אֶגְלַ֙יִם֙ יִלְלָתָ֔הּ וּבְאֵ֥ר אֵילִ֖ים בְאֵ֥ר אֵילִ֖ים יִלְלָתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) it.has.gone.around the cry (et) the.territory of.Moab \[is\].to Eglaim wailing its and \[is to\].Beer.Elim wailing its

*JPS 1917:* For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/97/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

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).