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# תַּעֲלוּלִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8586

**wantonness** — 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

wantonness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8586/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּעֲלוּלִים: n.m.pl.abstr. wantonness, caprice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8586/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.pl.abstr. wantonness, caprice;—ת׳ יִמְשְׁלוּ בָם Is 3:4 caprice shall rule over them; sf. תַּעֲלֻלֵיהֶם 66:4 their wanton dealing, i.e. that inflicted on them.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 3:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.3.4/#tree)

וְנָתַתִּ֥י נְעָרִ֖ים שָׂרֵיהֶ֑ם וְתַעֲלוּלִ֖ים יִמְשְׁלוּ־בָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.make youths leaders their and wantonness(es) they.will.rule over them

*JPS 1917:* And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

[Isaiah 66:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.66.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.66.4/#tree)

גַּם־אֲנִ֞י אֶבְחַ֣ר בְּתַעֲלֻלֵיהֶ֗ם וּמְגֽוּרֹתָם֙ אָבִ֣יא לָהֶ֔ם יַ֤עַן קָרָ֙אתִי֙ וְאֵ֣ין עוֹנֶ֔ה דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי וְלֹ֣א שָׁמֵ֑עוּ וַיַּעֲשׂ֤וּ הָרַע֙ בְּעֵינַ֔י וּבַאֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא־חָפַ֖צְתִּי בָּחָֽרוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* also I I.will.choose (in) punishments their and fears their I.will.bring to them because I.called and there.\[was\].not \[one.who\].answered I.spoke and not they.listened and they.did the evil in eyes my and.(in) \[that\] which not I.desired they.chose

*JPS 1917:* Even so I will choose their mockings, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did not hear, but they did that which was evil in Mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8586.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8586/): 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).