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# דָּלִית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1808

**branch** — used 8 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

branch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1808/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּלִיּוֹת: n.f. branch, bough [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1808/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** pl. of \[דָּלִית\] n.f. branch, bough, metaph. of Israel under figure of olive tree דָּֽלִיּוֹתָיו Je 11:16 Ez 17:6, 7 (figure of vine); v 23 (under figure of cedar); 31:7, 9, 12 of Asshur as a cedar, דָּלִיֹּתָיו Ez 19:11 Isr. as a vine (cf. Löw65).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, 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: branches (4); its branches (4).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 31:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.7/#tree)

וַיְּיִ֣ף בְּגָדְל֔וֹ בְּאֹ֖רֶךְ דָּֽלִיּוֹתָ֑יו כִּֽי־הָיָ֥ה שָׁרְשׁ֖וֹ אֶל־מַ֥יִם רַבִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.beautiful in greatness its in the.length its.branches his (dm) it.was root its to waters many

*JPS 1917:* Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

[Ezekiel 31:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.9/#tree)

יָפֶ֣ה עֲשִׂיתִ֔יו בְּרֹ֖ב דָּֽלִיּוֹתָ֑יו וַיְקַנְאֻ֙הוּ֙ כָּל־עֲצֵי־עֵ֔דֶן אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּגַ֥ן הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* beautiful I made.it in the.abundance its.branches his and they envied.it all the.trees of.Eden which \[were\].in the.garden of.(the) God

*JPS 1917:* I made it fair by the multitude of its branches; so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1808.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1808/): 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).