דְּלִי
dᵉlîy · H1805 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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a bucket
An open container used to carry water
ExamplesNumbers 24:7 “Water will flow from his buckets, And his seed will be by many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.
Isaiah 40:15 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales; Behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
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branch
Part of a tree which grows out from the trunk; found exclusively in contexts where the tree is used to symbolize a nation
ExamplesNumbers 24:7 “Water will flow from his buckets, And his seed will be by many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom 3
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
- כַּד kad · H3537 · jar, pitcher
- A vessel used for carrying water, typically a jar or pitcher. While כַּד is often carried on the shoulder (Genesis 24:14-20) and דְּלִי is specifically a bucket for drawing water from a well, both are water-carrying containers and can overlap in functional context.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἄντλημα ántlēma · G502 · container, vessel
- Greek term for a bucket or vessel used to draw water, the precise functional equivalent of Hebrew דְּלִי in contexts such as drawing water from a well (cf. John 4:11 where the Samaritan woman lacks an ἄντλημα to draw water).
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Containers001003001001003
- דְּלִי names a bucket or water vessel, a container used for drawing and carrying water, as pictured overflowing in Balaam's oracle of Israel's abundance.
- Trees001002007002
- This code is shared with the closely related noun for a leafy branch (דָּלִיָּה (dâlîyâh, H1808), דָּלִיָּה); the plant-related sense is inherited here from that cognate rather than independently attested for the water-bucket meaning.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1805. deli דְּלִי noun [masculine] bucket, מִדְּלִי כְּמַר like a drop (hanging) from a…
דְּלִי noun [masculine] bucket, מִדְּלִי כְּמַר like a drop (hanging) from a bucket Isa 40:15; Du suffix מִדָּֽלְיָו מים יזל Num 24:7 compare Di (on form doly¹w compare Ew§ 180 a & Anm. 3, also Sta§ 52 a); figurative of Israel's prosperity.
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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