אָהַל
ʼâhal · H166 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to shine, to be clean, to be pure
Literally probably: to shine; hence: to be without blemish and therefore acceptable to God
ExamplesJob 25:5 “If even the moon has no brightness And the stars are not pure in His sight,
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
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֹאnot 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Dwell002002001005
- אָהַל describes shining or being clear, applied to the sense of a heavenly light being pure and bright in Job's argument (Job 25:5).
- Good002001001031
- The word can also describe brightness as a positive quality, as the purity attributed even to the moon and stars in God's sight by comparison with mortal man (Job 25:5).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H166. ahal II. [אָהַל] verb Hiph`il be clear, shine, Imperfect 3 masculine singular…
II. [אָהַל] verb Hiph`il be clear, shine, Imperfect 3 masculine singular יַאֲהִיל (subject moon יָרֵחַ) Job 25:5 (|| זַכּוּ subject כוכבים, compare also יִזְכֶּה Job 25:4) (= יָהֵל, from הלל; by textual error ?) compare Di so ᵐ5 > = I. אָהַל KöI, 373, after Ki).
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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