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title: דַּלָּה — hair · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דַּלָּה (1803), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: hair. BDB 1906: n.f. hair, thrum. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דַּלָּה

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«דַּלָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hair** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 1803 · **BDB:** דַּלָּה

### Glosses

loom (1); the.hair (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hair [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1803/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. hair, thrum [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1803/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. coll., hair, thrum (both from hanging down)—דַּלָּה Is 38:12; cstr. דַּלַּת Ct 7:6;—hair, ד׳ ראשׁך Ct 7:6; thrum (threads of warp hanging in loom) in sim. of premature death מִדַּלָּה יְבַצְּעֵנִי Is 38:12.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דַּלָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1803/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 7:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.7.6/)

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רֹאשֵׁ֤ךְ עָלַ֙יִךְ֙ כַּכַּרְמֶ֔ל וְדַלַּ֥ת רֹאשֵׁ֖ךְ כָּאַרְגָּמָ֑ן מֶ֖לֶךְ אָס֥וּר בָּרְהָטִֽים׃

*Word for word:* head your on you \[is\].like (the) Carmel and the.hair your.head your \[is\].like.(the) purple wool \[the\].king \[is\].bound by the tresses

*JPS 1917:* Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held captive in the tresses thereof.

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[Isaiah 38:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.38.12/)

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דּוֹרִ֗י נִסַּ֧ע וְנִגְלָ֛ה מִנִּ֖י כְּאֹ֣הֶל רֹעִ֑י קִפַּ֨דְתִּי כָאֹרֵ֤ג חַיַּי֙ מִדַּלָּ֣ה יְבַצְּעֵ֔נִי מִיּ֥וֹם עַד־לַ֖יְלָה תַּשְׁלִימֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* dwelling-place my it.has.been.pulled.up and it.has.been.removed from me like the.tent of my.shepherd I.have.rolled.up like (the) weaver life my from.\[the\] loom he cuts.me.off from day unto night you make.an.end.of.me

*JPS 1917:* My habitation is plucked up and carried away from me as a shepherd's tent; I have rolled up like a weaver my life; He will cut me off from the thrum; from day even to night wilt Thou make an end of me.

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