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# עָלַל

Biblical Hebrew

**act the child** — used 2 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

act the child [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָלַל³: vb. denom. act play the child Pōʿ. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. act or play the child;—only Pōʿ. Pt. עַמִּי נֹגְשָׂיו מְעוֹלֵל Is 3:12 my people—its ruler is acting the child.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I have inserted (1); \[is\] acting like children (1).

## In the verses

[Job 16:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.15/#tree)

שַׂ֣ק תָּ֭פַרְתִּי עֲלֵ֣י גִלְדִּ֑י וְעֹלַ֖לְתִּי בֶעָפָ֣ר קַרְנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* sackcloth I.have.sewed over skin my and I.have.inserted in the dust horn my

*JPS 1917:* I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.

[Isaiah 3:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.12/#tree)

עַמִּי֙ נֹגְשָׂ֣יו מְעוֹלֵ֔ל וְנָשִׁ֖ים מָ֣שְׁלוּ ב֑וֹ עַמִּי֙ מְאַשְּׁרֶ֣יךָ מַתְעִ֔ים וְדֶ֥רֶךְ אֹֽרְחֹתֶ֖יךָ בִּלֵּֽעוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* people my oppressors its \[is\].acting.like.children and women they.have.ruled over it my.people my guides your \[are\].leading.astray and the.way your.paths your they.have.confused

*JPS 1917:* As for My people, a babe is their master, and women rule over them. O My people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_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).