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# דַּלָּה

Biblical Hebrew

**the poor** — 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

the poor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b7_5bc_5dc_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דַּלָּה²: n.f. the poor [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b7_5bc_5dc_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. the poor—cstr. דַּלַּת Je 40:7 + 2 times; pl. דַּלּוֹת Je 52:15, 16;—the poor (coll., weak, helpless ones) Je 40:7 2 K 24:14; 25:12 (in ‖ Je 52:16, as also v 15, MT has strangely the pl.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of the poor people (3); of the poor (1); the poor people (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 25:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.12/#tree)

וּמִדַּלַּ֣ת הָאָ֔רֶץ הִשְׁאִ֖יר רַב־טַבָּחִ֑ים לְכֹֽרְמִ֖ים וּלְיֹגְבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and some of.the.poor of the.land he.left.behind \[the\].chief of.\[the\].bodyguards to vinedressers and to husbandmen

*JPS 1917:* But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

[Jeremiah 52:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.16/#tree)

וּמִדַּלּ֣וֹת הָאָ֔רֶץ הִשְׁאִ֕יר נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ן רַב־טַבָּחִ֑ים לְכֹרְמִ֖ים וּלְיֹגְבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and some of.the.poor.people of the.land he.left.behind Nebuzaradan \[the\].chief of.\[the\].bodyguards to vinedressers and to husbandmen

*JPS 1917:* But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d3_5b7_5bc_5dc_5b8_5bc_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b7_5bc_5dc_5b8_5bc_5d4/): 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).