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# תּוֹלָע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8439

**Tola** — used 6 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

Tola [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8439/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תּוֹלָע²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8439/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Issachar; a judge of Israel Ju 10:1; assigned to earlier time by Gn 46:13; Nu 26:23 (both P), 1 Ch 7:1, 2(×2).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Tola (5); of Tola (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 46:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.13/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י יִשָׂשכָ֑ר תּוֹלָ֥ע וּפֻוָּ֖ה וְי֥וֹב וְשִׁמְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Issachar Tola and Puah and Iob and Shimron

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puvah, and Iob, and Shimron.

[1 Chronicles 7:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.1/#tree)

וְלִבְנֵ֣י יִשָׂשכָ֗ר תּוֹלָ֧ע וּפוּאָ֛ה יָשׁ֥וּב וְשִׁמְר֖וֹן אַרְבָּעָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and.\[belonged\] to the.sons of.Issachar Tola and Puah Jashub and Shimron four

*JPS 1917:* And of the sons of Issachar: Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8439.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8439/): 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).