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# אֱיָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H353

**help** — 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

help [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/353/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֱיָל: n.m. help [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/353/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. help (loan-word from Aramaic ܐܻܝܳܠܴܐ, ܐܻܝܳܠ help, so LagOr ii. 7, BN 175, NöZMG 1883, 526) only in sim. כְּגֶבֶר אֵין א׳ ψ 88:5.

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 (26 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (20 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 88:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.5/#tree)

נֶ֭חְשַׁבְתִּי עִם־י֣וֹרְדֵי ב֑וֹר הָ֝יִ֗יתִי כְּגֶ֣בֶר אֵֽין־אֱיָֽל׃

*Word for word:* I.am.reckoned with \[those.who\].go.down of.\[the\].pit I.am like a.man \[who\].there.\[is\].not strength

*JPS 1917:* I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am become as a man that hath no help;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/353.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/353/): 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).