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title: לָאֵל — Lael · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לָאֵל (3815), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Lael. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לָאֵל

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«לָאֵל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Lael** — 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:** 3815 · **BDB:** לָאֵל

### Glosses

of.Lael (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Lael [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3815/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3815/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (belonging to God; cf. Palm. לשמש: v. Nö WZKM, 1892, 314 Gray Heb. Names, 207) a Gershonite-Levite; Nu 3:24, 𝔊 Δαηλ, Δαουηλ.

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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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לָאֵל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3815/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 3:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.24/)

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וּנְשִׂ֥יא בֵֽית־אָ֖ב לַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֑י אֶלְיָסָ֖ף בֶּן־לָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] leader of.\[the\].house of.a.father of the Gershonite\[s\] \[was\].Eliasaph the.son of.Lael

*JPS 1917:* the prince of the fathers' house of the Gershonites being Eliasaph the son of Lael,

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