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title: דַּל — low · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דַּל (1800), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 48 times: low. BDB 1906: adj. low, weak, poor, thin. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דַּל

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«דַּל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **low** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 48 times · **Key:** 1800 · **BDB:** דַּל²

### Glosses

poor.\[people\] (10); \[the\].poor (9); a.poor.\[person\] (6)

### Meaning (OSHB)

low [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1800/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. low, weak, poor, thin [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1800/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. low, weak, poor, thin (especially common in Wisd. lit. and poet.)—דַּל Lv 14:21 + 8 times, דָּל֑ Ex 23:3 + 17 times + דָּל֥ ψ 82:3; דַּלִּים Am 2:7 + 17 times; דַּלּוֹת Gn 41:19;—weak, thin, of kine Gn 41:19 (E); of Amnon 2 S 13:4; weak, of family of Saul 2 S 3:1 (opp. חָזֵק) cf. Ju 6:15; reduced, poor (opp. rich) Lv 14:21 (P) Ru 3:10 (opp. עָשִׁיר) Je 5:4 (opp. to הגדולים, v 5) Pr 28:15 Zp 3:12 (עַם עָנִי וָדָל֑); mostly subst., a poor (man), the poor Ex 23:3 (JE); opp. to עָשִׁיר Ex 30:15 (P) Pr 10:15; 22:16; 28:11; opp. הוֹן Pr 19:4; ‖ אביון 1 S 2:8 Jb 5:16 ψ 72:13; 82:4; 113:7 Pr 14:31 Is 14:30; 25:4 Am 4:1; 8:6; cf. also Jb 20:10, 19 Pr 22:9 Je 39:10; reduced, weak, helpless (‖ עני) Jb 34:28 ψ 82:3 (‖ also יתום), Pr 22:22 Is 10:2; 11:4; 26:6 Am 2:7; ‖ אלמנה Jb 31:16; opp. שׁוֹעַ Jb 34:19;—cf. also ψ 41:2 Pr 19:17; 21:13; 28:3, 8; 29:7, 14.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 45 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דַּל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1800/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 23:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.3/)

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וְדָ֕ל לֹ֥א תֶהְדַּ֖ר בְּרִיבֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* and a.poor.\[person\] not you.must.honor in his.case at.law

*JPS 1917:* neither shalt thou favour a poor man in his cause.

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[Isaiah 26:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.6/)

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תִּרְמְסֶ֖נָּה רָ֑גֶל רַגְלֵ֥י עָנִ֖י פַּעֲמֵ֥י דַלִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* it will.trample.it a.foot \[the\].feet of.\[the\].afflicted \[the\].footsteps of.poor.\[people\]

*JPS 1917:* The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

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