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# דָּלַג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1801

**leap** — used 5 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

leap [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1801/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּלַג: vb. leap [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1801/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. leap (NH spring over, skip (a verse), omit)— Pt. דּוֹלֵג Zp 1:9 leap, c. art. one leaping על־הַמִּפְתָּן; 𝔊 1 S 5:5 ὑπερβαίνοντες ὑπερβαίνουσιν = דָּלֹג יִדְלֹ֑גוּ cf. Dr. Impf. יְדַלֵּג Is 35:6; אֲדַלֶּג־ ψ 18:30 = 2 S 22:30; Pt. מְדַלֵּג Ct 2:8;—leap, leap over c. acc. שׁוּר ψ 18:30 = 2 S 22:30; abs. leap as the stag, יְד׳ כָּאַיָּל פִּסֵּחַ Is 35:6; sq. על of locality Ct 2:8 (‖ מְקַפֵּץ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: I leap over (2); \[he is\] leaping (1); he will leap (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.30/#tree)

כִּ֥י בְכָ֖ה אָר֣וּץ גְּד֑וּד בֵּאלֹהַ֖י אֲדַלֶּג־שֽׁוּר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) by you I.run a.marauding.band by God my I.leap.over a.wall

*JPS 1917:* For by Thee I run upon a troop; by my God do I scale a wall.

[Psalms 18:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.30/#tree)

כִּֽי־בְ֭ךָ אָרֻ֣ץ גְּד֑וּד וּ֝בֵֽאלֹהַ֗י אֲדַלֶּג־שֽׁוּר׃

*Word for word:* (dm) by you I.run a.marauding.band and by God my I.leap.over a.wall

*JPS 1917:* For by Thee I run upon a troop; and by my God do I scale a wall.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1801.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1801/): 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).