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title: חַלְחָלָה — anguish · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חַלְחָלָה (2479), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: anguish. BDB 1906: n.f. anguish. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חַלְחָלָה

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«חַלְחָלָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **anguish** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 2479 · **BDB:** חַלְחָלָה

### Glosses

anguish (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

anguish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2479/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. anguish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2479/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. anguish, מָֽלְאוּ מָתְנַי ח׳ Is 21:3, ח׳ בכל מתנים Na 2:11; Ez 30:4, 9 (‖ החריד).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חַלְחָלָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2479/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 21:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.21.3/)

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עַל־כֵּ֗ן מָלְא֤וּ מָתְנַי֙ חַלְחָלָ֔ה צִירִ֣ים אֲחָז֔וּנִי כְּצִירֵ֖י יֽוֹלֵדָ֑ה נַעֲוֵ֣יתִי מִשְּׁמֹ֔עַ נִבְהַ֖לְתִּי מֵרְאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* therefore they.are.full loins my anguish pangs they have.seized.me like.\[the\] pangs of.\[one.who\].gives.birth I.am.bent.over from hearing I.am.terrified from seeing

*JPS 1917:* Therefore are my loins filled with convulsion; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bent so that I cannot hear; I am affrighted so that I cannot see.

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[Nahum 2:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.2.11/)

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בּוּקָ֥ה וּמְבוּקָ֖ה וּמְבֻלָּקָ֑ה וְלֵ֨ב נָמֵ֜ס וּפִ֣ק בִּרְכַּ֗יִם וְחַלְחָלָה֙ בְּכָל־מָתְנַ֔יִם וּפְנֵ֥י כֻלָּ֖ם קִבְּצ֥וּ פָארֽוּר׃

*Word for word:* emptiness and emptiness and devastation and a.heart melting and tottering of.knees and anguish \[is\].in all loins and the.faces all.of.them their they.have.gathered a.glow

*JPS 1917:* She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and convulsion is in all loins, and the faces of them all have gathered blackness.

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