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# תָּלַל

Biblical Hebrew

**deride** — used 9 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

deride [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b7_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תָּלַל: vb. mock, deceive, trifle with [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b7_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. mock, deceive, trifle with (perhaps akin to Arabic دَلَّ act coquettishly; cf. secondary √ \[הָתַל\] p. 251);—mock, trifle with, c. ב pers.: Pf. 3 ms. (בִּי) הֵ֫תֶל Gn 31:7 (E), 2 ms. הֵתַ֫לְתָּ Je 16:10, 13, 15; Impf. 3 mpl. יְהָתֵ֫לּוּ Je 9:4, 2 mpl. תְּהָתֵ֫לּוּ Jb 13:9 (on both v. Ges§ 53 q Baerad loc.); Inf. cstr. Jb 13:9 and (abs.) Ex 8:25 (J). Pf. 3 ms. הוּתַל Is 44:20 a heart (which is deceived.—Vid. \[הָחַל\], הֲתֻלִים p. 251.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: you have deceived (3); \[which\] it is deceived (1); deceives (1).

## In the verses

[Job 13:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.9/#tree)

הֲ֭טוֹב כִּֽי־יַחְקֹ֣ר אֶתְכֶ֑ם אִם־כְּהָתֵ֥ל בֶּ֝אֱנ֗וֹשׁ תְּהָתֵ֥לּוּ בֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[will it.be\].good? (dm) he.will.examine you or? as deceives (in).a person will.you.deceive (in) him

*JPS 1917:* Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him?

[Jeremiah 9:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.9.4/#tree)

וְאִ֤ישׁ בְּרֵעֵ֙הוּ֙ יְהָתֵ֔לּוּ וֶאֱמֶ֖ת לֹ֣א יְדַבֵּ֑רוּ לִמְּד֧וּ לְשׁוֹנָ֛ם דַּבֶּר־שֶׁ֖קֶר הַעֲוֵ֥ה נִלְאֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and each (in) neighbor his they.deceive and truth not they.speak they.have.taught tongue their to.speak falsehood to.do.iniquity they.are.weary

*JPS 1917:* And they deceive every one his neighbour, and truth they speak not; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5ea_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b7_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/lemma_3a_5ea_5b8_5bc_5dc_5b7_5dc/): 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).