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# חִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2427

**a writhing** — used 6 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

a writhing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2427/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חִיל: n.m. writhing, anguish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2427/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ex 15:14 a writhing, anguish;—ח׳ abs. Ex 15:14 + 5 times— writhing (contortions of fear) Ex 15:14 (‖ vb. רָגַז). anguish, always in sim. כַּיּוֹלֵדָה ψ 48:7 (allied kings against Jerus.); Zion, before Assyrians Mi 4:9; before Scythians or Chaldeans Je 6:24 (‖ צָרָה), = 50:43 (of king of Babylon; ‖ צָרָה); 22:23 (‖ חבלים q.v.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (18 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (14 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: anguish (6).

## In the verses

[Exodus 15:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.15.14/#tree)

שָֽׁמְע֥וּ עַמִּ֖ים יִרְגָּז֑וּן חִ֣יל אָחַ֔ז יֹשְׁבֵ֖י פְּלָֽשֶׁת׃

*Word for word:* they.have.heard peoples they tremble anguish it.has.seized the.inhabitants of.Philistia

*JPS 1917:* The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia.

[Psalms 48:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.48.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.48.7/#tree)

רְ֭עָדָה אֲחָזָ֣תַם שָׁ֑ם חִ֝֗יל כַּיּוֹלֵֽדָה׃

*Word for word:* trembling it seized.them there anguish like.(the) \[woman who\].gives.birth

*JPS 1917:* Trembling took hold of them there, pangs, as of a woman in travail.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2427.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2427/): 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).