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# לַיִל

Biblical Hebrew

**howling** — used 6 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

howling [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b7_5d9_5b4_5dc/#m1)

Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a night (2); night (2); \[was\] a night (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 21:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.11/#tree)

מַשָּׂ֖א דּוּמָ֑ה אֵלַי֙ קֹרֵ֣א מִשֵּׂעִ֔יר שֹׁמֵר֙ מַה־מִלַּ֔יְלָה שֹׁמֵ֖ר מַה־מִלֵּֽיל׃

*Word for word:* the.oracle of.Dumah to me \[someone.is\].calling from Seir O.watchman what? \[is\].from.\[the\] night O.watchman what? \[is\].from.\[the\] night

*JPS 1917:* The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir: 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?'

[Isaiah 15:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.15.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.15.1/#tree)

מַשָּׂ֖א מוֹאָ֑ב כִּ֠י בְּלֵ֞יל שֻׁדַּ֨ד עָ֤ר מוֹאָב֙ נִדְמָ֔ה כִּ֗י בְּלֵ֛יל שֻׁדַּ֥ד קִיר־מוֹאָ֖בקִיר־מוֹאָ֖ב נִדְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* the.oracle of.Moab (dm) in a.night it.was.devastated Ar of.Moab it.was.destroyed (dm) in a.night it.was.devastated Kir of.Moab it.was.destroyed

*JPS 1917:* The burden of Moab. For in the night that Ar of Moab is laid waste, he is brought to ruin; for in the night that Kir of Moab is laid waste, he is brought to ruin.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b7_5d9_5b4_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b7_5d9_5b4_5dc/): 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).