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# מָלַל

Biblical Hebrew

**languish** — used 7 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

languish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָלַל³: vb. languish, wither, fade Poʿl;. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. languish, wither, fade (apparently secondary √ of אמל q.v.);— Impf. 3 ms. יִמַּל Jb 18:16; וַיִּמָּ֑ל Jb 14:2; 3 mpl. יִמָּ֑לוּ Jb 24:24 ψ 37:2 (so Hup De and most; \> Niph. from IV. מלל Thes);—hang down, wither, fig. of man Jb 14:2 (כְּצִיץ); of wicked מִתַּחַת שָֽׁרָשָׁיו יִבָ֑שׁוּ וּמִ֫מַּעַל יִמַּל קְצִירוֹ 18:16; כְּרֹאשׁ שִׁבֹּ֫לֶת יִמָּ֑לוּ 24:24 (‖ יִקָּפְצוּן, הֻמְּכוּ); כֶּחָצִיר מְהֵרָה יִמָּ֑לוּ ψ 37:2 (‖ יִבּוֹלוּן). Poʿl;. Impf. יְמוֹלֵל ψ 90:6 it withereth (of grass; + וְיָבֵשׁ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (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: \[he is\] scraping (1); circumcise (1); he withered (1).

## In the verses

[Job 18:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.16/#tree)

מִ֭תַּחַת שָֽׁרָשָׁ֣יו יִבָ֑שׁוּ וּ֝מִמַּ֗עַל יִמַּ֥ל קְצִירֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (from) beneath roots his they.are.dried.up and (from) above it.withers branch\[es\] his

*JPS 1917:* His roots shall dry up beneath, and above shall his branch wither.

[Psalms 58:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.8/#tree)

יִמָּאֲס֣וּ כְמוֹ־מַ֭יִם יִתְהַלְּכוּ־לָ֑מוֹ יִדְרֹ֥ךְ חִ֝צָּ֗יו כְּמ֣וֹ יִתְמֹלָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* may.they.flow like waters \[which\].they.go.about (for themselves may.he.bend arrows his like let.them.be.cut.off

*JPS 1917:* Let them melt away as water that runneth apace; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5dc_5b7_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).