Word

דָּלָה

dâlâh · H1802 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

to draw water

Causative action by which someone draws water from a well using a receptacle attached to a rope

Examples
Exodus 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.
Exodus 2:19 They said, “An Egyptian saved us from the shepherds, and what is more, he even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
Proverbs 20:5 A plan in the heart of a person is like deep water, But a person of understanding draws it out.
to draw up > to save

Causative action by which someone delivers someone else from a perilous condition as if pulling that person out of a deep pit

Examples
Psalm 30:1 I will exalt You, LORD, for You have lifted me up, And have not let my enemies rejoice over me.

How it’s used In 3 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

5 occurrences in 5 groups

אִישׁman, person, each 1
שׁוֹקthigh 1
Not stated: you (one person) 1
Not stated: they 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

נִיme 1
הָher 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

מִןfrom+ פִּסֵּחַlame 1
לto/for+ נוּus 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 3 entries

Move002002001012: דָּלָה describes the drawing motion of pulling something upward, as when Moses is drawn out of the water by Pharaoh's daughter, an action of lifting movement.
Safe002003003019: The drawing-out sense of דָּלָה carries a rescue nuance, bringing someone from danger to safety, as in being drawn up out of deep waters.
Hang002003001008: דָּלָה also describes drawing water from a well by means of a rope or vessel let down and hung over the water's edge, the ordinary sense of drawing water for daily use.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

דָּלָהdâlâh · H1802דֶּלֶת deleth · H1817 · door, leaf (of a double door) · 87×דָּלִיָּה dâlîyâh · H1808 · branch · 8×דַּלָּה dallâh · H1803 · woven material, long hair · 7×דְּלִי dᵉlîy · H1805 · bucket, branch · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1802. dalah דָּלָה verb draw (water) (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic דְּלָא, ; Arabic pull up…

H1802. dalah
דָּלָה verb draw (water) (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic דְּלָא, ; Arabic pull up bucket; II, IV let down; v hang down; compare bucket; Ethiopic : weigh; Assyrian dalû, draw water, compare Dl § 108 C AdlerPAOS Oct. 1888, xcix.; also dilûtu, bucket, Idib; dalâni COTGloss) —
Qal Perfect דָּלָה Exo 2:19; Imperfect3masculine singular suffix יִדְלֶ֑נָּה Pro 20:5; דַּלְיוּ Pro 26:7 see below; 3 feminine pluralוַתִּדְלֶנָה Exo 2:16; Infinitive absolute דָּלֹה Exo 2:19; — draw (water, but no object expressed) Exo 2:6, Exo 2:19 (twice in verse); figurative of drawing counsel (עֵצָזה) out of heart, with accusative (suffix) Pro 20:5. — דַּלְיוּ Pro 26:7 is difficult; read perhaps 3 masculine plural דָּלָיוּ intransitive, a lame man's legs hang down (helpless) so Ew Sta§ 413 a; other views in De Now.
Pi`el Perfect2masculine singular suffix דִּלִּיתָ֑נִי Psa 30:2 figurative (compare Pa`el in Syriac) subject ׳י thou hast drawn me up (out of Sh®°ôl, compare Psa 30:4).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Move3 occurrences Hang1 occurrence Safe1 occurrence

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