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title: תְּעָלָה — water-course · The Tanakh dictionary
description: תְּעָלָה (8585), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: water-course. BDB 1906: n.f. water-course. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# תְּעָלָה

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«תְּעָלָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **water-course** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 8585 · **BDB:** תְּעָלָה

### Glosses

the.conduit (2); trench (2); a.channel (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

water-course [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8585/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. water-course [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8585/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. water-course;—ת׳ Je 30:13 +; cstr. תְּעָלַת Is 7:3 + 2 times; pl. sf. תְּעָלֹתֶיהָ Ez 31:4;— water-course, conducted for irrigation Ez 31:4; hence poet., channel for rain Jb 38:25. conduit, 2 K 18:17 = Is 36:2; Is 7:3, cf. 2 K 20:20. trench, 1 K 18:32, 35, 38.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 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 (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «תְּעָלָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8585/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 38:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.38.25/)

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מִֽי־פִלַּ֣ג לַשֶּׁ֣טֶף תְּעָלָ֑ה וְ֝דֶ֗רֶךְ לַחֲזִ֥יז קֹלֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* who? does.he.divide for the flood a.channel and a.path for.\[the\] storm of.thunder.claps

*JPS 1917:* Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, or a way for the lightning of the thunder;

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[1 Kings 18:35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.35/)

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וַיֵּלְכ֣וּ הַמַּ֔יִם סָבִ֖יב לַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ וְגַ֥ם אֶת־הַתְּעָלָ֖ה מִלֵּא־מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went the waters around (to) the altar and also (et) the trench he.filled water

*JPS 1917:* And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

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