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title: חֲתֻלָּה — swaddling-band · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חֲתֻלָּה (2854), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: swaddling-band. BDB 1906: n.f. swaddling-band. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חֲתֻלָּה

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«חֲתֻלָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **swaddling-band** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2854 · **BDB:** חֲתֻלָּה

### Glosses

swaddling-band (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

swaddling-band [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2854/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. swaddling-band [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2854/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. swaddling-band (v. BaNB 146)—only בְּשׂוּמִי עָנָן לְבֻשׁוֹ וַעֲרָפֶל חֲתֻלָּתוֹ Jb 38:9 when I made cloud its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling-band, fig. of dark clouds enveloping the sea.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חֲתֻלָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2854/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 38:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.9/)

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בְּשׂוּמִ֣י עָנָ֣ן לְבֻשׁ֑וֹ וַ֝עֲרָפֶ֗ל חֲתֻלָּתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* when made I cloud\[s\] clothing its and thick.darkness swaddling-band its

*JPS 1917:* When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

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