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# מַחְלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4244

**Mahlah** — used 5 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

Mahlah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4244/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחְלָה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4244/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. a daughter of Zelophehad Nu 26:33; 27:1; 36:11 Jos 17:3, 𝔊 Μα(α)λ(α)α. a Gileadite name (poss. m.) 1 Ch 7:18 𝔊 Μαελα, 𝔊L Μααλαθ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Mahlah (4); \[was\] Mahlah (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 7:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.18/#tree)

וַאֲחֹת֖וֹ הַמֹּלֶ֑כֶת יָלְדָה֙ אֶת־אִישְׁה֔וֹד וְאֶת־אֲבִיעֶ֖זֶר וְאֶת־מַחְלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and sister his Hammoleketh she.bore (et) Ishhod and (et) Abiezer and (et) Mahlah

*JPS 1917:* And his sister Hammolecheth bore Ish-hod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.

[Numbers 36:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.36.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.36.11/#tree)

וַתִּהְיֶ֜ינָה מַחְלָ֣ה תִרְצָ֗ה וְחָגְלָ֧ה וּמִלְכָּ֛ה וְנֹעָ֖ה בְּנ֣וֹת צְלָפְחָ֑ד לִבְנֵ֥י דֹדֵיהֶ֖ן לְנָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* and they.belonged Mahlah Tirzah and Hoglah and Milcah and Noah the.daughters of.Zelophehad to the.sons their.uncles their to wives

*JPS 1917:* For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4244.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4244/): 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).