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# תַּעֲלֻמָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8587

**hidden thing** — 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

hidden thing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8587/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּעֲלֻמָהֿ: n.f. hidden thing, secret [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8587/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hidden thing, secret (so, c. הֿ, van d. H. Bu, -הּ Baer Ginsb);—תּ׳ what is hidden Jb 28:11; pl. cstr. תַּעֲלֻמוֹת חָכְמָה Jb 11:6 secrets of wisdom, תּ׳ לֵב ψ 44:22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 2 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: \[the\] secrets (2); what is hidden (1).

## In the verses

[Job 28:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.11/#tree)

מִ֭בְּכִי נְהָר֣וֹת חִבֵּ֑שׁ וְ֝תַעֲלֻמָ֗הּיֹ֣צִא אֽוֹר׃פ

*Word for word:* from weeping rivers he.restrains and what.is.hidden he.brings.out light

*JPS 1917:* He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

[Psalms 44:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.44.22/#tree)

הֲלֹ֣א אֱ֭לֹהִים יַֽחֲקָר־זֹ֑את כִּֽי־ה֥וּא יֹ֝דֵ֗עַ תַּעֲלֻמ֥וֹת לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* ? not God will.he.search.out this (dm) he \[is\].knowing \[the\].secrets of.\[the\].heart

*JPS 1917:* Would not God search this out? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8587/): 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).