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title: מִיכַל — Michal · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִיכַל (4324), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 18 times: Michal. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִיכַל

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«מִיכַל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Michal** — 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:** 18 times · **Key:** 4324 · **BDB:** מִיכַל

### Glosses

Michal (16); \[was\].Michal (1); of.Michal (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Michal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4324/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4324/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (according to Ol§ 277 f.; contr. from מִיכָאֵל):—younger daughter of Saul, wife of David (𝔊 Μελχολ), 1 S 14:49; 18:20, 27, 28; 19:11, 12, 13, 17(×2); 25:44 2 S 3:13, 14; 6:16 = 1 Ch 15:29, 2 S 6:20, 21, 23; also 21:8 (𝔊 Μιχολ), but error for מֵרַב (𝔊L Μεροβ).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִיכַל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4324/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 19:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.19.12/)

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וַתֹּ֧רֶד מִיכַ֛ל אֶת־דָּוִ֖ד בְּעַ֣ד הַחַלּ֑וֹן וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ וַיִּבְרַ֖ח וַיִּמָּלֵֽט׃

*Word for word:* and she.let.down Michal (et) David through the window and he.went and he.fled and he.escaped

*JPS 1917:* So Michal let David down through the window; and he went, and fled, and escaped.

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[2 Samuel 6:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.23/)

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וּלְמִיכַל֙ בַּת־שָׁא֔וּל לֹֽא־הָ֥יָה לָ֖הּ יָ֑לֶד עַ֖ד י֥וֹם מוֹתָֽהּ׃פ

*Word for word:* and to Michal the.daughter of.Saul not it.belonged to her a.child until the.day her.death her

*JPS 1917:* And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.

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