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# קֹל

Biblical Hebrew

**lightness** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

lightness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b9_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֹל: lightness, frivolity [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b9_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] lightness, frivolity (so Vrss Ki Gie; Gf thinks = קָלוֹן; \> = voice);—מִקֹּל זְנוּתָהּ Je 3:9.—קֹל voice, v. קוֹל.

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

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.9/#tree)

וְהָיָה֙ מִקֹּ֣ל זְנוּתָ֔הּ וַתֶּחֱנַ֖ף אֶת־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַתִּנְאַ֥ף אֶת־הָאֶ֖בֶן וְאֶת־הָעֵֽץ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was from the.lightness her.prostitution her and it.was.polluted (et) the land and she.committed.adultery (et) (the) stone and (et) (the) wood

*JPS 1917:* and it came to pass through the lightness of her harlotry, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e7_5b9_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b9_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).