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title: יָלַהּ — borrow · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָלַהּ (lemma:יָלַהּ), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: borrow. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָלַהּ

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«יָלַהּ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **borrow** — 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:** lemma:יָלַהּ

### Glosses

it.languished (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

borrow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5dc_5b7_5d4_5bc/#m1)

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Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָלַהּ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5dc_5b7_5d4_5bc/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 47:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.47.13/)

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וְלֶ֤חֶם אֵין֙ בְּכָל־הָאָ֔רֶץ כִּֽי־כָבֵ֥ד הָרָעָ֖ב מְאֹ֑ד וַתֵּ֜לַהּ אֶ֤רֶץ מִצְרַ֙יִם֙ וְאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן מִפְּנֵ֖י הָרָעָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and food there.\[was\].not in all the land (dm) \[was\].heavy the famine very and it.languished the.land of.Egypt and the.land of.Canaan because of the famine

*JPS 1917:* And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine.

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