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title: קֹל — lightness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קֹל (lemma:קֹל), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: lightness. BDB 1906: lightness, frivolity. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קֹל

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«קֹל» in the Tanakh dictionary: **lightness** — 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:קֹל · **BDB:** קֹל

### Glosses

the.lightness (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

lightness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b9_5dc/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

lightness, frivolity [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b9_5dc/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] lightness, frivolity (so Vrss Ki Gie; Gf thinks = קָלוֹן; \> = voice);—מִקֹּל זְנוּתָהּ Je 3:9.—קֹל voice, v. קוֹל.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קֹל» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/lemma_3a_5e7_5b9_5dc/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 3:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.3.9/)

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וְהָיָה֙ מִקֹּ֣ל זְנוּתָ֔הּ וַתֶּחֱנַ֖ף אֶת־הָאָ֑רֶץ וַתִּנְאַ֥ף אֶת־הָאֶ֖בֶן וְאֶת־הָעֵֽץ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was from the.lightness her.prostitution her and it.was.polluted (et) the land and she.committed.adultery (et) (the) stone and (et) (the) wood

*JPS 1917:* and it came to pass through the lightness of her harlotry, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks;

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