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# מָלַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4448

**speak** — used 4 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

speak [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4448/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָלַל: vb. Pi. speak, utter, say n.pr. utter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4448/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. Pi. speak, utter, say (NH Pi. id.; Aramaic ܡܰܠܶܠ (and many deriv.), מַלֵּל; perhaps cf. Arabic مَلَّ iv. dictate (a letter, etc.), ((ملو) مَلَا) iv. id. NöZMG xl. 1886, 725);— Pf. מִלֵּל Gn 21:7; cf. 1 s. מַלּוֹתִי (Ew§ 274 b. N) as n.pr. infr.; מִלֵּ֑לוּ Jb 33:3; Impf. יְמַלֵּל ψ 106:2; תְּמַלָּל־ Jb 8:2;—say, sq. dir. quot. + לְ of ind. obj. Gn 21:7; utter, obj. דַּ֫עַת Jb 33:3; cf. 8:2; obj. גְּבוּרוֹת י׳ ψ 106:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: has he said (1); they utter (1); will he utter (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 106:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.2/#tree)

מִ֗י יְ֭מַלֵּל גְּבוּר֣וֹת יְהוָ֑ה יַ֝שְׁמִ֗יעַ כָּל־תְּהִלָּתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* who? will.he.utter the.mighty.deeds of.Yahweh will.he.proclaim? all praise his

*JPS 1917:* Who can express the mighty acts of the LORD, or make all His praise to be heard?

[Job 8:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.2/#tree)

עַד־אָ֥ן תְּמַלֶּל־אֵ֑לֶּה וְר֥וּחַ כַּ֝בִּיר אִמְרֵי־פִֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* until when? will.you.say these.\[things\] and.\[be\] a.wind mighty? \[will\].the.words your.mouth your

*JPS 1917:* How long wilt thou speak these things, seeing that the words of thy mouth are as a mighty wind?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4448.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4448/): 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).