תָּלָה
tâlâh · taw-law'
to suspend (especially to gibbet)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to suspend (especially to gibbet)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: hang (up).
Letters
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- 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)
the mark, the covenant sign › authority, the one who leads › to reveal, behold
The mark, the covenant sign of authority, the one who leads that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of תָּלָה 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
27 occurrences · 27 OT · 0 NT · 27 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- hanged2 · 7%
- they hanged2 · 7%
- from off thee, and shall hang1 · 4%
- but he hanged1 · 4%
- and him he hanged1 · 4%
- and thou hang1 · 4%
- for he that is hanged1 · 4%
- he hanged1 · 4%
- them, and hanged1 · 4%
- and they were hanging1 · 4%
- and hanged them up1 · 4%
- had hanged1 · 4%
- may be hanged1 · 4%
- to hang1 · 4%
- hang1 · 4%
- so they hanged1 · 4%
- and him they have hanged1 · 4%
- be hanged1 · 4%
- and they hanged1 · 4%
- should be hanged1 · 4%
- and hangeth1 · 4%
- we hanged1 · 4%
- whereon there hang1 · 4%
- and they shall hang1 · 4%
- are hanged up1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
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.