תְּעָלָה
tᵉʻâlâh · teh-aw-law'
a channel (into which water is raised for irrigation); also a bandage or plaster (as placed upon a wound)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5927 (עָלָה);
a channel (into which water is raised for irrigation); also a bandage or plaster (as placed upon a wound)
- a channel (into which water is raised for irrigation)
- also, a bandage or plaster (as placed upon a wound)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: conduit, cured, healing, little river, trench, watercourse.
Letters
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- 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 › to see and know › authority, the one who leads › to reveal, behold
The mark, the covenant sign that works to see and know of authority, the one who leads that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of תְּעָלָה 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
11 occurrences · 11 OT · 0 NT · 9 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- by the conduit2 · 18%
- a trench1 · 9%
- the trench1 · 9%
- that was in the trench1 · 9%
- and a conduit1 · 9%
- a watercourse1 · 9%
- of the conduit1 · 9%
- thou hast no healing1 · 9%
- for thou shalt not be cured1 · 9%
- her little rivers1 · 9%
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.