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title: פְּלִילָה — office of judge · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פְּלִילָה (6415), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: office of judge. BDB 1906: n.f. office of judge umpire. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פְּלִילָה

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«פְּלִילָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **office of judge** — 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:** 6415 · **BDB:** פְּלִילָה

### Glosses

a.decision (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

office of judge [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6415/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. office of judge umpire [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6415/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. office of judge or umpire;—עשׂי פ׳ (Qr עֲשׂוּ) Is 16:3 do an umpire’s office.

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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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פְּלִילָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6415/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 16:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.16.3/)

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הָבִ֤יאִי עֵצָה֙ עֲשׂ֣וּ פְלִילָ֔ה שִׁ֧יתִי כַלַּ֛יִל צִלֵּ֖ךְ בְּת֣וֹךְ צָהֳרָ֑יִם סַתְּרִי֙ נִדָּחִ֔ים נֹדֵ֖ד אַל־תְּגַלִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* bring counsel make a.decision make like (the) night shade your in.\[the\] middle of.\[the\].noon(s) hide banished.\[ones\] a.fugitive do.not expose

*JPS 1917:* 'Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.

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