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# תְּלָאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8513

**weariness** — used 5 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

weariness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8513/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תְּלָאָה: n.f. weariness, hardship [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8513/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. weariness, hardship;—ת׳ Ex 18:8 + 4 times; of distress of Isr. in Egypt Nu 20:14; in wilderness Ex 18:8 (both JE); from Assyrian, Bab., etc. Ne 9:32; cf. La 3:5; מַתְּלָאָה Mal 1:13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hardship (4); hardship! (1).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.5/#tree)

בָּנָ֥ה עָלַ֛י וַיַּקַּ֖ף רֹ֥אשׁ וּתְלָאָֽה׃

*Word for word:* he.has.built on me and he.has.surrounded.\[me\] poison and hardship

*JPS 1917:* He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

[Numbers 20:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.20.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.20.14/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח מֹשֶׁ֧ה מַלְאָכִ֛ים מִקָּדֵ֖שׁ אֶל־מֶ֣לֶךְ אֱד֑וֹם כֹּ֤ה אָמַר֙ אָחִ֣יךָ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אַתָּ֣ה יָדַ֔עְתָּ אֵ֥ת כָּל־הַתְּלָאָ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר מְצָאָֽתְנוּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent Moses messengers from Kadesh to the.king of.Edom thus he.says brother your Israel you you.know (et) all the hardship which it has.come.upon.us

*JPS 1917:* And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom: 'Thus saith thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8513.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8513/): 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).