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title: דָּלַח — make turbid · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דָּלַח (1804), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: make turbid. BDB 1906: vb. make turbid. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דָּלַח

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«דָּלַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **make turbid** — 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:** 3 times · **Key:** 1804 · **BDB:** דָּלַח

### Glosses

it (2); you.made.turbid (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

make turbid [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1804/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. make turbid [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1804/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. make turbid (Assyrian dalâḫu, disturb, ZimBP 81 also in deriv.; Pal. 𝔗 דְּלַח fig. be anxious, fear, ܕܠܰܚ turbavit, conturbavit)— Impf. 2 ms., וַתִּדְלַח Ez 32:2; 3 fs. sf. תִּדְלָחֵם Ez 32:13 + v 13 (Co תרפשׂם);—stir up, trouble, make turbid (always with feet) sq. מים Ez 32:2 (‖ תִּרְפֹּס,—ס Baer, and not שׂ); so 32:13a, b (but v 13b Co reads תרפשׂ (cf. v 2) for תדלחם).

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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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דָּלַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1804/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 32:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.13/)

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וְהַֽאֲבַדְתִּי֙ אֶת־כָּל־בְּהֶמְתָּ֔הּ מֵעַ֖ל מַ֣יִם רַבִּ֑ים וְלֹ֨א תִדְלָחֵ֤ם רֶֽגֶל־אָדָם֙ ע֔וֹד וּפַרְס֥וֹת בְּהֵמָ֖ה לֹ֥א תִדְלָחֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.destroy (et) all livestock its from at waters many and not it will.make.them.turbid a.foot of.a.human again and hooves of.livestock not it will.make.them.turbid

*JPS 1917:* I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

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[Ezekiel 32:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.32.2/)

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בֶּן־אָדָ֗ם שָׂ֤א קִינָה֙ עַל־פַּרְעֹ֣ה מֶֽלֶךְ־מִצְרַ֔יִם וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֵלָ֔יו כְּפִ֥יר גּוֹיִ֖ם נִדְמֵ֑יתָ וְאַתָּה֙ כַּתַּנִּ֣ים בַּיַּמִּ֔ים וַתָּ֣גַח בְּנַהֲרוֹתֶ֗יךָ וַתִּדְלַח־מַ֙יִם֙ בְּרַגְלֶ֔יךָ וַתִּרְפֹּ֖ס נַהֲרוֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* O.son of.humankind take.up a.lamentation on Pharaoh the.king of.Egypt and you.will.say to him a.young.lion of.nations you.became.like and you \[were\].like.(the) sea monster in the seas and you.burst.forth in rivers your and you.made.turbid waters with feet your and you.fouled rivers their

*JPS 1917:* 'Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him: thou didst liken thyself unto a young lion of the nations; whereas thou art as a dragon in the seas; and thou didst gush forth with thy rivers, and didst trouble the waters with thy feet, and foul their rivers.

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