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# תִּדְעָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8413

**Tidal** — 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

Tidal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8413/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּדְעָל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8413/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. king allied with Chedorlaomer, called מֶלֶךְ גּוֹיִם Gn 14:1, 9; Θαλγα\[λ\], 𝔊L Θαργαλ (n.pr. Tudh̬ula occurs on late Bab. tablet, Pinches Trans. Vict. Inst., xxix (1897), 47, 73, Say Acad. Mar. 21, 1896, 242; Hast. DB Tidal; but ident. of pers. unproven. LW KingHammurabi i (1898), liii HptBall Gn 14:1 CheEncy. Bib. Tidal).

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Tidal (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 14:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.1/#tree)

וַיְהִ֗י בִּימֵי֙ אַמְרָפֶ֣ל מֶֽלֶךְ־שִׁנְעָ֔ר אַרְי֖וֹךְ מֶ֣לֶךְ אֶלָּסָ֑ר כְּדָרְלָעֹ֙מֶר֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ עֵילָ֔ם וְתִדְעָ֖ל מֶ֥לֶךְ גּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in the.days of.Amraphel the.king of.Shinar Arioch the.king of.Ellasar Kedorlaomer the.king of.Elam and Tidal the.king of.Goyim

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,

[Genesis 14:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.14.9/#tree)

אֵ֣ת כְּדָרְלָעֹ֜מֶר מֶ֣לֶךְ עֵילָ֗ם וְתִדְעָל֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ גּוֹיִ֔ם וְאַמְרָפֶל֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ שִׁנְעָ֔ר וְאַרְי֖וֹךְ מֶ֣לֶךְ אֶלָּסָ֑ר אַרְבָּעָ֥ה מְלָכִ֖ים אֶת־הַחֲמִשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* with Kedorlaomer the.king of.Elam and Tidal the.king of.Goyim and Amraphel the.king of.Shinar and Arioch the.king of.Ellasar four kings with the five

*JPS 1917:* against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8413.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8413/): 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).