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# צִלָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6741

**Zillah** — used 3 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

Zillah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6741/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

צִלָּה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6741/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. wife of Lam. Gn 4:19, 22, 23, Σελλα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Zillah (2); \[was\] Zillah (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 4:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.19/#tree)

וַיִּֽקַּֽח־ל֥וֹ לֶ֖מֶךְ שְׁתֵּ֣י נָשִׁ֑ים שֵׁ֤ם הָֽאַחַת֙ עָדָ֔ה וְשֵׁ֥ם הַשֵּׁנִ֖ית צִלָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.took for himself Lamech two wives the.name of the.one \[was\].Adah and the.name of the.second \[was\].Zillah

*JPS 1917:* And Lamech took unto him two wives; the name of one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

[Genesis 4:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.22/#tree)

וְצִלָּ֣ה גַם־הִ֗וא יָֽלְדָה֙ אֶת־תּ֣וּבַל קַ֔יִן תּ֣וּבַל קַ֔יִן לֹטֵ֕שׁ כָּל־חֹרֵ֥שׁ נְחֹ֖שֶׁת וּבַרְזֶ֑ל וַֽאֲח֥וֹת תּֽוּבַל־קַ֖יִןתּֽוּבַל־קַ֖יִן נַֽעֲמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and Zillah also she she.bore (et) Tubal-Cain Tubal-Cain a.sharpener of.every worker of.bronze and iron and.\[was\] the.sister of Tubal-Cain Naamah

*JPS 1917:* And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6741.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1510/6741/): 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).