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# מִלּוֹא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4407

**Millo. See also** — 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

Millo. See also [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4407/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִלּוֹא: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4407/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (Thes ‘fill’ of earth, earthwork, but v. GFM Ju 9:6) SchwallyZMG lii (1898), 137 cp. Assyrian mulû = earthwork, mound, terrace, Dl 411 M-A 544;— בֵּית מִלּוֹא Ju 9:6 (‖ בַּעֲלֵי שְׁכֶם) so v 20(×2); near Shechem, site unknown; 𝔊 οἶκος Βηθμααλων. citadel in Jerus. הַמִּלּוֹא 2 S 5:9 1 K 9:15, 24; 11:27; 1 Ch 11:8 2 Ch 32:5. 𝔊 usually ἡ ἄκρα (A 1 K 9:15, 24 also Μελω). בֵּית מִלֹּא 2 K 12:21 (+ הַיֹּרֵד סִלָּא) dub.; = 2? 𝔊 οἴκῳ Μααλω.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 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: Millo (6).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 9:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.24/#tree)

אַ֣ךְ בַּת־פַּרְעֹ֗ה עָֽלְתָה֙ מֵעִ֣יר דָּוִ֔ד אֶל־בֵּיתָ֖הּ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בָּֽנָה־לָ֑הּ אָ֖ז בָּנָ֥ה אֶת־הַמִּלּֽוֹא׃

*Word for word:* only the.daughter of.Pharaoh she.went.up from the.city of.David to house her.own which he.had.built for her then he.built (et) the Millo

*JPS 1917:* But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her; then did he build Millo.

[1 Chronicles 11:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.11.8/#tree)

וַיִּ֤בֶן הָעִיר֙ מִסָּבִ֔יב מִן־הַמִּלּ֖וֹא וְעַד־הַסָּבִ֑יב וְיוֹאָ֕ב יְחַיֶּ֖ה אֶת־שְׁאָ֥ר הָעִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and he.built the city from round.about from the Millo and to the surroundings and Joab he.restored (et) the.remainder of the.city

*JPS 1917:* And he built the city round about, from Millo even round about; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4407.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4407/): 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).