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title: דְּלִי — bucket · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דְּלִי (1805), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: bucket. BDB 1906: bucket. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דְּלִי

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«דְּלִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **bucket** — 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:** 1805 · **BDB:** דְּלִי

### Glosses

a.bucket (1); buckets (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

bucket [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1805/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

bucket [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1805/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] bucket, כְּמַר מִדְּלִי like a drop (hanging) from a bucket Is 40:15; du. sf. יִזַּל־מַיִם מִדָּֽלְיָו Nu 24:7 cf. Di (on form dolyāw cf. Ew§ 180 a \& Anm. 3, also Sta§ 52 a); fig. of Israel’s prosperity.

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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 (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דְּלִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1805/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 40:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.15/)

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הֵ֤ן גּוֹיִם֙ כְּמַ֣ר מִדְּלִ֔י וּכְשַׁ֥חַק מֹאזְנַ֖יִם נֶחְשָׁ֑בוּ הֵ֥ן אִיִּ֖ים כַּדַּ֥ק יִטּֽוֹל׃

*Word for word:* there! nations \[are\].like a.drop from a.bucket and like.\[the\] dust of.balances they.are.regarded there! islands like.(the) fine \[dust\] he.lifts

*JPS 1917:* Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold the isles are as a mote in weight.

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[Numbers 24:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.7/)

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יִֽזַּל־מַ֙יִם֙ מִדָּ֣לְיָ֔ו וְזַרְע֖וֹ בְּמַ֣יִם רַבִּ֑ים וְיָרֹ֤ם מֵֽאֲגַג֙ מַלְכּ֔וֹ וְתִנַּשֵּׂ֖א מַלְכֻתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* it.will.flow water from buckets its and offspring its \[will be\].in.waters many and he.will.be.high more than.Agag king its and it.will.be.exalted kingdom its

*JPS 1917:* Water shall flow from his branches, and his seed shall be in many waters; and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

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