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# חַכְלִלוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2448

**dulness** — 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

dulness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2448/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חַכְלִילוּת: n.f. dulness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2448/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. dulness, of eyes in drunkenness, לְמִי חַכ׳עֵינָֽיִם׃ Pr 23:29 (v 30 לַמְאַחֲרִים עַל־הַיָּ֑יִן).

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 23:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.23.29/#tree)

לְמִ֨י א֥וֹי לְמִ֪י אֲב֡וֹי לְמִ֤י מִדְיָנִ֨ים ׀ לְמִ֥י שִׂ֗יחַ לְ֭מִי פְּצָעִ֣ים חִנָּ֑ם לְ֝מִ֗י חַכְלִל֥וּת עֵינָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* \[belongs\].to whom? woe \[belongs\].to whom? woe \[belong\].to whom? contentions \[belongs\].to whom? complaint \[belong\].to whom? bruises without.cause \[belongs\].to whom? dullness of.eyes

*JPS 1917:* Who crieth: 'Woe'? who: 'Alas'? who hath contentions? who hath raving? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2448.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2448/): 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).