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# הֵילֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1966

**shining one** — 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

shining one [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1966/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֵילֵל²: n.m. appell. shining one [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1966/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. appell. shining one, epith. of king of Babylon, אֵיךְ נָפַלְתָּ מִשָּׁמַיִם ה׳ בֶּן־שָׁ֑חַר Is 14:12 how art thou fallen, shining one, son of dawn! i.e. star of the morning. (Cf. Assyrian muštilil epith. of (Venus as) morning-star III R 57:60 OppJAS 1871, 448 SchrSK 1874, 337 COT ad loc.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 14:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.12/#tree)

אֵ֛יךְ נָפַ֥לְתָּ מִשָּׁמַ֖יִם הֵילֵ֣ל בֶּן־שָׁ֑חַר נִגְדַּ֣עְתָּ לָאָ֔רֶץ חוֹלֵ֖שׁ עַל־גּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* how! you.have.fallen from heaven O.shining.one son of.dawn you.have.been.cut.down to the ground O.\[you.who\].defeat over \[the\].nations

*JPS 1917:* How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, that didst cast lots over the nations!

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1966.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1966/): 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).