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# יָחִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3175

**waiting** — 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

waiting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3175/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָחִיל: adj.verb. waiting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3175/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.verb. waiting, so Thes SS Buhl, but very dub.,—only טוֹב וְיָחִיל וְדוּמָם לְ La 3:26 good is it that one be waiting and that silently (but v. דוּמָם) for the salvation of י׳; construct. with ו and adj. hardly poss.; Ew Ke Löhr Köii. 407 al. regard as vb. (from חול); read perhaps וְיֹחִיל Hiph. Impf. from יחל (cf. v 24).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (13 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.26/#tree)

ט֤וֹב וְיָחִיל֙ וְדוּמָ֔ם לִתְשׁוּעַ֖ת יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good and waiting and silence for the.salvation of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* It is good that a man should quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3175.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3175/): 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).