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# לָאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3815

**Lael** — 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

Lael [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3815/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָאֵל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3815/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (belonging to God; cf. Palm. לשמש: v. Nö WZKM, 1892, 314 Gray Heb. Names, 207) a Gershonite-Levite; Nu 3:24, 𝔊 Δαηλ, Δαουηλ.

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, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 3:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.24/#tree)

וּנְשִׂ֥יא בֵֽית־אָ֖ב לַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֑י אֶלְיָסָ֖ף בֶּן־לָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] leader of.\[the\].house of.a.father of the Gershonite\[s\] \[was\].Eliasaph the.son of.Lael

*JPS 1917:* the prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites being Eliasaph the son of Lael,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3815.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3815/): 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).