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# אֲמֵלָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H537

**feeble** — 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

feeble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/537/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲמֵלָל: adj. feeble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/537/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. feeble (Mish. id.; on formation cf. Ew§ 157 b Sta§ 232); הַיְּהוּדִים הָאֲמֵלָלִים Ne 3:34.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 3:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.3.34/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ׀ לִפְנֵ֣י אֶחָ֗יו וְחֵיל֙ שֹֽׁמְר֔וֹן וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מָ֛ה הַיְּהוּדִ֥ים הָאֲמֵלָלִ֖ים עֹשִׂ֑ים הֲיַעַזְב֨וּ לָהֶ֤ם הֲיִזְבָּ֙חוּ֙ הַיְכַלּ֣וּ בַיּ֔וֹם הַיְחַיּ֧וּ אֶת־הָאֲבָנִ֛ים מֵעֲרֵמ֥וֹת הֶעָפָ֖ר וְהֵ֥מָּה שְׂרוּפֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* and he.said before brothers his and the.army of.Samaria and he.said what? \[are\].the Jews (the) feeble doing will they.restore? for themselves will they.offer.sacrifices? will they.finish? in the day will they.restore? (et) the stones from the.heaps of.(the) debris and they \[are\].burned

*JPS 1917:* And he spoke before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said: 'What do these feeble Jews? will they restore at will? will they sacrifice? will they make an end this day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/537/): 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).