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title: אֱיָל — help · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֱיָל (353), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: help. BDB 1906: n.m. help. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֱיָל

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«אֱיָל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **help** — 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:** 353 · **BDB:** אֱיָל

### Glosses

strength (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

help [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/353/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. help [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/353/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. help (loan-word from Aramaic ܐܻܝܳܠܴܐ, ܐܻܝܳܠ help, so LagOr ii. 7, BN 175, NöZMG 1883, 526) only in sim. כְּגֶבֶר אֵין א׳ ψ 88:5.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (26 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (20 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֱיָל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/353/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 88:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.88.5/)

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נֶ֭חְשַׁבְתִּי עִם־י֣וֹרְדֵי ב֑וֹר הָ֝יִ֗יתִי כְּגֶ֣בֶר אֵֽין־אֱיָֽל׃

*Word for word:* I.am.reckoned with \[those.who\].go.down of.\[the\].pit I.am like a.man \[who\].there.\[is\].not strength

*JPS 1917:* I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am become as a man that hath no help;

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