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# דַּלָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1803

**hair** — 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

hair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1803/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דַּלָּה: n.f. hair, thrum [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1803/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. coll., hair, thrum (both from hanging down)—דַּלָּה Is 38:12; cstr. דַּלַּת Ct 7:6;—hair, ד׳ ראשׁך Ct 7:6; thrum (threads of warp hanging in loom) in sim. of premature death מִדַּלָּה יְבַצְּעֵנִי Is 38:12.

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 (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: loom (1); the hair (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 7:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.6/#tree)

רֹאשֵׁ֤ךְ עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ כַּכַּרְמֶ֔ל וְדַלַּ֥ת רֹאשֵׁ֖ךְ כָּאַרְגָּמָ֑ן מֶ֖לֶךְ אָס֥וּר בָּרְהָטִֽים׃

*Word for word:* head your on you \[is\].like (the) Carmel and the.hair your.head your \[is\].like.(the) purple wool \[the\].king \[is\].bound by the tresses

*JPS 1917:* Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held captive in the tresses thereof.

[Isaiah 38:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.12/#tree)

דּוֹרִ֗י נִסַּ֧ע וְנִגְלָ֛ה מִנִּ֖י כְּאֹ֣הֶל רֹעִ֑י קִפַּ֨דְתִּי כָאֹרֵ֤ג חַיַּי֙ מִדַּלָּ֣ה יְבַצְּעֵ֔נִי מִיּ֥וֹם עַד־לַ֖יְלָה תַּשְׁלִימֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* dwelling-place my it.has.been.pulled.up and it.has.been.removed from me like the.tent of my.shepherd I.have.rolled.up like (the) weaver life my from.\[the\] loom he cuts.me.off from day unto night you make.an.end.of.me

*JPS 1917:* My habitation is plucked up and carried away from me as a shepherd's tent; I have rolled up like a weaver my life; He will cut me off from the thrum; from day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1803.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1803/): 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).