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# דְּלִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1805

**bucket** — 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

bucket [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1805/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דְּלִי: bucket [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1805/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] bucket, כְּמַר מִדְּלִי like a drop (hanging) from a bucket Is 40:15; du. sf. יִזַּל־מַיִם מִדָּֽלְיָו Nu 24:7 cf. Di (on form dolyāw cf. Ew§ 180 a & Anm. 3, also Sta§ 52 a); fig. of Israel’s prosperity.

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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 40:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.15/#tree)

הֵ֤ן גּוֹיִם֙ כְּמַ֣ר מִדְּלִ֔י וּכְשַׁ֥חַק מֹאזְנַ֖יִם נֶחְשָׁ֑בוּ הֵ֥ן אִיִּ֖ים כַּדַּ֥ק יִטּֽוֹל׃

*Word for word:* there! nations \[are\].like a.drop from a.bucket and like.\[the\] dust of.balances they.are.regarded there! islands like.(the) fine \[dust\] he.lifts

*JPS 1917:* Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold the isles are as a mote in weight.

[Numbers 24:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.7/#tree)

יִֽזַּל־מַ֙יִם֙ מִדָּ֣לְיָ֔ו וְזַרְע֖וֹ בְּמַ֣יִם רַבִּ֑ים וְיָרֹ֤ם מֵֽאֲגַג֙ מַלְכּ֔וֹ וְתִנַּשֵּׂ֖א מַלְכֻתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* it.will.flow water from buckets its and offspring its \[will be\].in.waters many and he.will.be.high more than.Agag king its and it.will.be.exalted kingdom its

*JPS 1917:* Water shall flow from his branches, and his seed shall be in many waters; and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1805.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1805/): 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).