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title: יָחִיל — waiting · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָחִיל (3175), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: waiting. BDB 1906: adj.verb. waiting. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָחִיל

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«יָחִיל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **waiting** — 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:** 3175 · **BDB:** יָחִיל

### Glosses

waiting (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

waiting [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3175/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.verb. waiting [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3175/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.verb. waiting, so Thes SS Buhl, but very dub.,—only טוֹב וְיָחִיל וְדוּמָם לְ La 3:26 good is it that one be waiting and that silently (but v. דוּמָם) for the salvation of י׳; construct. with ו and adj. hardly poss.; Ew Ke Löhr Köii. 407 al. regard as vb. (from חול); read perhaps וְיֹחִיל Hiph. Impf. from יחל (cf. v 24).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (13 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָחִיל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3175/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Lamentations 3:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.26/)

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ט֤וֹב וְיָחִיל֙ וְדוּמָ֔ם לִתְשׁוּעַ֖ת יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good and waiting and silence for the.salvation of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* It is good that a man should quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

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