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# מְגִלָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4039

**roll** — used 21 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

roll [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4039/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְגִלָּה: n.f. roll [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4039/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. roll (writing, book; late)—מ׳ Je 36:28 + 16 times; cstr. מְגִלַּת־ ψ 40:8 + 3 times;—roll of writing, book מְגִלַּת־סֵפֶר Je 36:2, 4 Ez 2:9 ψ 40:8; מ׳ alone Je 36:6, 14(×2), 20, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28(×2), 29, 32 Ez 3:1, 2, 3 Zc 5:1, 2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: scroll (14); a scroll (7).

## In the verses

[Psalms 40:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.8/#tree)

אָ֣ז אָ֭מַרְתִּי הִנֵּה־בָ֑אתִי בִּמְגִלַּת־סֵ֝֗פֶר כָּת֥וּב עָלָֽי׃

*Word for word:* then I.said here! I.have.come in.\[the\] scroll of.\[the\].book \[it.is\].written on me

*JPS 1917:* Then said I: 'Lo, I am come with the roll of a book which is prescribed for me;

[Zechariah 5:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.5.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.5.1/#tree)

וָאָשׁ֕וּב וָאֶשָּׂ֥א עֵינַ֖י וָֽאֶרְאֶ֑ה וְהִנֵּ֖ה מְגִלָּ֥ה עָפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and I.returned and I.lifted.up eyes my and I.saw and there! a.scroll flying

*JPS 1917:* Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold a flying roll.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4039.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4039/): 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).