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טָלָא

ṭâlâʼ · H2921 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to patch, to mend

    Action by which a piece of cloth or leather is sewed on clothing or shoes in order to repair a hole or tear

    Examples

    Joshua 9:5 and worn-out and patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes on themselves; and all the bread of their provision was dry and had become crumbled.

  2. spotted, speckled, colorful

    Literally: patched; hence: pertaining to having a non-homogenous coloring whether by natural process or human design

    Examples

    Genesis 30:32 let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled or spotted sheep and every black sheep among the lambs, and the spotted or speckled among the goats; and those shall be my wages.

    Genesis 30:33 “So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come concerning my wages. Every one that is not speckled or spotted among the goats, or black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered stolen.”

    Genesis 30:39 So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks delivered striped, speckled, and spotted offspring.

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

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
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טָלָא describes patches or markings attached to an animal's coat, a piecing together of distinct colored patches on its hide.
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The word directly denotes speckled or spotted coloring, as the spotted and speckled sheep and goats set apart as Jacob's wages (Genesis 30:32-35).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2921. tala [טָלָא] verb patch, spot (Late Hebrew id., patch) — Qal Passive participle…
H2921. tala
[טָלָא] verb patch, spot (Late Hebrew id., patch) —
Qal Passive participle טָלוּא Gen 30:32 (twice in verse); Gen 30:33; plural טְלֻאִים Gen 30:35; Gen 30:39; טְלֻאוֺת Eze 16:16; טְלֻאֹת) Gen 30:35; chiefly of spotted, variegated sheep and goats (Jacob & Laban); || נְקֻדִּים נָקֹד, Gen 30:32 (twice in verse); Gen 30:33, Gen 30:35; || עקדים Gen 30:35; || both, Gen 30:39 (all J); of high places, variegated (gaily-coloured shrines) Eze 16:16.
Pu`al Participle מְטֻלָּאוֺת patched, of sandals Jos 9:5 (JE).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Color7 occurrencesAttach1 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

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