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# כָּחַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3583

**paint** — 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

paint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3583/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּחַל: vb. paint [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3583/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. paint (eyes) (NH id.; Aramaic כְּחַל, ܟܚܰܠ; Ethiopic ኰሐለ: Arabic كَحَلَ )— Pf. in רָחַצְתְּ כָּחַלְתְּ עֵינַיִךְ וגו׳ Ez 23:40 (Co reads 3 pl.);—v. also פּוּךְ.

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 (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: you painted (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 23:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.40/#tree)

וְאַ֗ף כִּ֤י תִשְׁלַ֙חְנָה֙ לַֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים בָּאִ֖ים מִמֶּרְחָ֑ק אֲשֶׁ֨ר מַלְאָ֜ךְ שָׁל֤וּחַ אֲלֵיהֶם֙ וְהִנֵּה־בָ֔אוּ לַאֲשֶׁ֥ר רָחַ֛צְתְּ כָּחַ֥לְתְּ עֵינַ֖יִךְ וְעָ֥דִית עֶֽדִי׃

*Word for word:* and also (dm) they.sent for men \[who\].come from a.distance whom a.messenger \[was\].sent to them and there! they.came \[those\].for whom you.bathed you.painted eyes your and you.adorned.yourself ornament\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And furthermore ye have sent for men that come from far; unto whom a messenger was sent, and, lo, they came; for whom thou didst wash thyself, paint thine eyes, and deck thyself with ornaments;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3583.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3583/): 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).