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# דָּל

Biblical Hebrew

**door** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

door [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דָּל²: door [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] door (Ph. דל) only fig. cstr. דַּל שְׂפָתָ֑י ψ 141:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Psalms 141:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.141.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.141.3/#tree)

שִׁיתָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה שָׁמְרָ֣ה לְפִ֑י נִ֝צְּרָ֗ה עַל־דַּ֥ל שְׂפָתָֽי׃

*Word for word:* set O.Yahweh a.guard for mouth my keep watch over the.door my.lips my

*JPS 1917:* Set a guard, O LORD, to my mouth; keep watch at the door of my lips.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/lemma_3a_5d3_5b8_5bc_5dc/): 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).