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# גִּלָּיוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1549

**table** — used 2 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

table [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1549/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּלָּיוֹן: n.m. table, tablet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1549/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. table, tablet (Talm גִּלְיוֹן, the empty margin of page or roll, vid. LagGN 1881, 403, cf. BN 199)—קַח־לְךָ גִּלָּיוֹן גָּדוֹל וּכְתֹב עָלָיו take thee a great tablet and write upon it Is 8:1; pl. הַגִּלְיֹנִים tablets of polished metal, mirrors Is 3:23 𝔗 𝔙 Ges Che Di De; but transparent garments, gauzes, 𝔊 Ew (cf. Arabic جَلْوَةٌ fine garment).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 3:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.23/#tree)

וְהַגִּלְיֹנִים֙ וְהַסְּדִינִ֔ים וְהַצְּנִיפ֖וֹת וְהָרְדִידִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and the mirrors and the.linen garments and the headdresses and the shawls

*JPS 1917:* and the gauze robes, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the mantles.

[Isaiah 8:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.1/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהוָה֙ אֵלַ֔י קַח־לְךָ֖ גִּלָּי֣וֹן גָּד֑וֹל וּכְתֹ֤ב עָלָיו֙ בְּחֶ֣רֶט אֱנ֔וֹשׁ לְמַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז מַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז מַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז מַהֵ֥ר שָׁלָ֖ל חָ֥שׁ בַּֽז׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to me take (for yourself a.tablet large and write on it with a.stylus of.a.person (to) Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto me: 'Take thee a great tablet, and write upon it in common script: The spoil speedeth, the prey hasteth;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1549/): 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).