[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%94/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ח](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/het/)‎ / חִילָה‎

# חִילָה

Biblical Hebrew

**anguish** — 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

anguish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b4_5d9_5dc_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חִילָה: n.f. anguish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b4_5d9_5dc_5b8_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. anguish, Jb 6:10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 6:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.10/#tree)

וּ֥תְהִי ע֨וֹד ׀ נֶ֘חָ֤מָתִ֗י וַאֲסַלְּדָ֣ה בְ֭חִילָה לֹ֣א יַחְמ֑וֹל כִּי־לֹ֥א כִ֝חַ֗דְתִּי אִמְרֵ֥י קָדֽוֹשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and may.it.be still comfort my and may.I.jump in anguish \[which\].not it.relents (dm) not I.have.hidden \[the\].words of.\[the\].holy.\[one\]

*JPS 1917:* Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would exult in pain, though He spare not; for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b4_5d9_5dc_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b4_5d9_5dc_5b8_5d4/): 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).