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# חָתַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2853

**entwine** — used 2 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

entwine [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2853/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָתַל: vb. entwine, enwrap [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2853/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. perhaps entwine, enwrap (poss. denom., so MV al.; yet cf. NH חוֹתָל woven date-basket)— Pf. 2 fs. חֻתָּֽלְתְּ and Inf. abs. הָחְתֵּל be swathed, swaddled;—וְהָמְלֵחַ לֹא הֻמְלַ֫חַתְּ וְהָחְתֵּל לֹא חֻתָּֽלְתְּ Ez 16:4 and not at all wast thou rubbed with salt, and not at all wast thou swaddled, of Jerusalem under fig. of infant.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: at all (be wrapped) (1); you were wrapped (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 16:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.4/#tree)

וּמוֹלְדוֹתַ֗יִךְ בְּי֨וֹם הוּלֶּ֤דֶת אֹתָךְ֙ לֹֽא־כָרַּ֣ת שָׁרֵּ֔ךְ וּבְמַ֥יִם לֹֽא־רֻחַ֖צְתְּ לְמִשְׁעִ֑י וְהָמְלֵ֙חַ֙ לֹ֣א הֻמְלַ֔חַתְּ וְהָחְתֵּ֖ל לֹ֥א חֻתָּֽלְתְּ׃

*Word for word:* and birth(s) your on the.day were.born you not it.was.cut.off cord your.umbilical and with water not you.were.washed for cleansing and at.all.(be.salted) not you.were.rubbed.with.salt and at.all.(be.wrapped) not you.were.wrapped

*JPS 1917:* And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water for cleansing; thou was not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2853.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2853/): 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).