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# יְלֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3214

**howling** — 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

howling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3214/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְלֵל: howling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3214/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] howling (of beasts);—וּבְתֹהוּ יְלֵל יְשִׁמֹ֑ן Dt 32:10 in a waste of howling of a desert (= in the howling waste of a desert; v Dr).

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 (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 32:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.10/#tree)

יִמְצָאֵ֙הוּ֙ בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִדְבָּ֔ר וּבְתֹ֖הוּ יְלֵ֣ל יְשִׁמֹ֑ן יְסֹֽבְבֶ֙נְהוּ֙ יְב֣וֹנְנֵ֔הוּ יִצְּרֶ֖נְהוּ כְּאִישׁ֥וֹן עֵינֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* he found.it in a.land of.wilderness and in a.wasteland a.howling of.a.desolate.place he surrounded.it he took.care.of.it he guarded.it like the.pupil his.eye his

*JPS 1917:* He found him in a desert land, and in the waste, a howling wilderness; He compassed him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3214.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3214/): 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).