[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%90/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ט](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/tet/)‎ / טָלָא‎

# טָלָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2921

**patch** — used 8 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

patch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2921/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טָלָא: vb. patch, spot [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2921/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. patch, spot (NH id., patch)— Pt. pass. טָלוּא Gn 30:32(×2), 33; pl. טְלֻאִים v 35, 39; טְלֻאוֹת Ez 16:16; טְלֻאֹת Gn 30:35; chiefly of spotted, variegated sheep and goats (Jacob & Laban); ‖ נָקֹד, נְקֻדִּים Gn 30:32(×2), 33, 35; ‖ עקדים Gn 30:35; ‖ both, v 39 (all J); of high places, variegated (gaily-coloured shrines) Ez 16:16. Pt. מְטֻלָּאוֹת patched, of sandals Jos 9:5 (JE).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: spotted (5); multicolored (1); patched (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 30:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.39/#tree)

וַיֶּחֱמ֥וּ הַצֹּ֖אן אֶל־הַמַּקְל֑וֹת וַתֵּלַ֣דְןָ הַצֹּ֔אן עֲקֻדִּ֥ים נְקֻדִּ֖ים וּטְלֻאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.in.heat the flock to the branches and they.bore the flock striped.\[ones\] speckled.\[ones\] and spotted.\[ones\]

*JPS 1917:* And the flocks conceived at the sight of the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted.

[Ezekiel 16:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.16.16/#tree)

וַתִּקְחִ֣י מִבְּגָדַ֗יִךְ וַתַּֽעֲשִׂי־לָךְ֙ בָּמ֣וֹת טְלֻא֔וֹת וַתִּזְנִ֖י עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם לֹ֥א בָא֖וֹת וְלֹ֥א יִהְיֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and you.took some of your.clothes and you.made for yourself high.places multicolored and you.acted.as.a.prostitute on them not coming and not it.will.be

*JPS 1917:* And thou didst take of thy garments, and didst make for thee high places decked with divers colours, and didst play the harlot upon them; the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2921.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2921/): 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).