גִּלָּיוֹן
gillâyôwn · H1549 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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tablet
Small, flat tablet, probably made of wood or metal, on which words were scratched with a stylus
ExamplesIsaiah 8:1 Then the LORD said to me, “Take for yourself a large tablet and write on it in ordinary letters: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
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mirror
Meaning unsure, possibly: small, flat tablet with a polished or smooth surface; made out of metal, that reflects one's image
ExamplesIsaiah 3:23 papyrus garments, undergarments, headbands, and veils.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גָּדוֹלgreat, large 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לָקַחto take, to receive 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- סֵפֶר çêpher · H5612 · scroll, book, letter
- גִּלָּיוֹן (gillâyôwn, H1549) (2× occurrence, glossed "glass, roll") and סֵפֶר (çêpher, H5612) (186×, glossed "bill, book, evidence, letter, register, scroll") genuinely overlap in the sense of written/inscribed document types—both can denote a scroll or written record.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Scrolls001003001001014
- The noun denotes a writing tablet or scroll-like surface, used of the large tablet Isaiah is commanded to inscribe with a symbolic name.
- Jewellery001003001001011
- The same word also names a polished hand mirror, listed among the fine articles of feminine adornment condemned in Isaiah's oracle against the daughters of Zion.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1549. gillayon גִּלָּיוֺן noun masculine table, tablet (Talmud גִּלְיוֺן, the empty…
גִּלָּיוֺן noun masculine table, tablet (Talmud גִּלְיוֺן, the empty margin of page or roll, see LagGN 1881, 403, compare BN 199) — עָלָיו וּכְתֹב גָּדוֺל גִּלָּיוֺן קַחלְֿךָ take thee a great tablet and write upon it Isa 8:1; plural הַגִּלְֹינִים tablets of polished metal, mirrors Isa 3:23 ᵑ9 ᵑ7 Ges Che Di De; but transparent garments, gauzes, ᵐ5 Ew (compare Arabic fine garment).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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