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# קַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7031

**light** — used 13 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

light [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7031/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קַל²: adj. light, swift, fleet [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7031/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. light, swift, fleet;—ms. ק׳ Am 2:15 +, קָ֑ל v 14; fs. קַלָּה Je 2:23; pl. קַלִּים Is 18:2 +;—קַל בְּרַגְלָיו light with his feet Am 2:15 2 S 2:18; ק׳ alone, swift, messengers Is 18:2, pursuers La 4:19 (מִן comp.), camel Je 2:23, cloud Is 19:1; of swift vanishing of wicked Jb 24:18 (Bu קַלּוּ for קַל הוּא); as subst. Am 2:14; Je 46:6; Ec 9:11, = swift (horse) Is 30:16; קַל as adv., swiftly (+ מְהֵרָה) Is 5:26; Jo 4:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 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: swift (6); \[is\] swift (1); \[one\] (1).

## In the verses

[Job 24:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.18/#tree)

קַֽל־ה֤וּא ׀ עַל־פְּנֵי־מַ֗יִם תְּקֻלַּ֣ל חֶלְקָתָ֣ם בָּאָ֑רֶץ לֹֽא־יִ֝פְנֶה דֶּ֣רֶךְ כְּרָמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].swift he on \[the\].surface of.\[the\].waters it.is.cursed portion their in the land not anyone.turns the.direction of.vineyards

*JPS 1917:* He is swift upon the face of the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he turneth not by the way of the vineyards.

[Amos 2:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.2.14/#tree)

וְאָבַ֤ד מָנוֹס֙ מִקָּ֔ל וְחָזָ֖ק לֹא־יְאַמֵּ֣ץ כֹּח֑וֹ וְגִבּ֖וֹר לֹא־יְמַלֵּ֥ט נַפְשֽׁוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be.lost a.place.of.escape from a.swift.\[person\] and a.strong.\[person\] not he.will.make.firm power his and a.mighty.\[person\] not he.will.save life his

*JPS 1917:* And flight shall fail the swift, and the strong shall not exert his strength, neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7031.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7031/): 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).