מִלָּה
millâh · mil-law'
a word, command, discourse, or subject
Lexicon
Derivation: (Aramaic) corresponding to H4405 (מִלָּה);
a word, command, discourse, or subject
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: commandment, matter, thing. word.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › authority, the one who leads › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of authority, the one who leads that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִלָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
24 occurrences · 24 OT · 0 NT · 22 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the thing3 · 13%
- words2 · 8%
- matter2 · 8%
- of the thing2 · 8%
- things1 · 4%
- thing1 · 4%
- made the thing1 · 4%
- and made the thing1 · 4%
- commandment1 · 4%
- word1 · 4%
- the word1 · 4%
- was the thing1 · 4%
- of the words1 · 4%
- these words1 · 4%
- of the matters1 · 4%
- of the things1 · 4%
- great words1 · 4%
- of the matter1 · 4%
- the matter1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
- Daniel24
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.