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# תָּלָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8511

**hang** — used 3 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

hang [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8511/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּלָא: vb. hang [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8511/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. hang (‖ form of תלה, Ges§ 75 rr);— Pf. 3 pl. sf. תְּלָאוּם 2 S 21:12 Qr the Philistines had hanged them (Kt תלום; v. Dr); Pt. pass. תְּלֻאִים Dt 28:66 thy life shall be hung up before thee, i.e. be in suspense, each moment uncertain.—וְעַמִּי תְלוּאִים לִמְשׁוּבָתִי Ho 11:7 my people is hung up to my backsliding is certainly corrupt (AV bent to backsliding from me, i.e. hung or swung toward turning from me, cf. GASm, but very dub.); Marti conj. נִלְוִים אֶל־עֲצַבִּים; Oettli Now2 Harper נִלְאָה or הֶלְאַ֫נִי has wearied itself \[me\] in backsliding.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] hung up (1); hung up (1); they (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 11:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.11.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.11.7/#tree)

וְעַמִּ֥י תְלוּאִ֖ים לִמְשֽׁוּבָתִ֑י וְאֶל־עַל֙ יִקְרָאֻ֔הוּ יַ֖חַד לֹ֥א יְרוֹמֵם׃

*Word for word:* and people my \[are\].hung.up to apostasy my and to a.height they call.on.him together not he.will.exalt.\[them\]

*JPS 1917:* And My people are in suspense about returning to Me; and though they call them upwards, none at all will lift himself up.

[Deuteronomy 28:66](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.66/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.28.66/#tree)

וְהָי֣וּ חַיֶּ֔יךָ תְּלֻאִ֥ים לְךָ֖ מִנֶּ֑גֶד וּפָֽחַדְתָּ֙ לַ֣יְלָה וְיוֹמָ֔ם וְלֹ֥א תַאֲמִ֖ין בְּחַיֶּֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.be life your hung.up for you from in.front and you.will.be.in.dread night and by.day and not you.will.trust in life your

*JPS 1917:* And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8511.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8511/): 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).