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# שַׂמְלָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8072

**Samlah** — used 4 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

Samlah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8072/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׂמְלָה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8072/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. kg. of Edom Gn 36:36, 37 (P; Σαμ(α)λα) = 1 Ch 1:47, 48 (Σαμαα, Σαβαα).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Samlah (4).

## In the verses

[Genesis 36:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.36/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת הֲדָ֑ד וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ תַּחְתָּ֔יו שַׂמְלָ֖ה מִמַּשְׂרֵקָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Hadad and he.reigned in place.of.him Samlah from Masrekah

*JPS 1917:* And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

[1 Chronicles 1:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.47/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת הֲדָ֑ד וַיִּמְלֹ֣ךְ תַּחְתָּ֔יו שַׂמְלָ֖ה מִמַּשְׂרֵקָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Hadad and he.reigned in place.of.him Samlah from Masrekah

*JPS 1917:* And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8072.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8072/): 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).