טְלָא
ṭᵉlâʼ · H2922 · Hebrew · 0 occurrences
Meanings
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lamb
Young sheep, perhaps unweaned; fully dependent on its mother for nourishment and on the shepherd for protection
This lexeme does not occur in the Old Testament text as tagged in standard critical editions.
Near synonyms 1 word
- כֶּבֶשׂ kebes · H3532 · lamb
- Common Hebrew term for lamb, frequently used in sacrificial contexts and general references to young sheep; synonymous with טְלָא as both denote young sheep.
In the other Testament 2 words
- ἀρνίον arníon · G721 · lamb, sheep, ram
- Standard Greek equivalent for Hebrew lamb terms, frequently used in LXX to translate Hebrew lamb vocabulary and throughout the NT, especially in Revelation for the Lamb of God.
- ἀμνός amnós · G286 · lamb
- Greek term for lamb used in LXX and NT, particularly in contexts of sacrifice (e.g., John 1:29, Acts 8:32, 1 Peter 1:19); semantically equivalent to Hebrew lamb terminology.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Domestic Animals001001002002
- This lexeme has no tagged occurrence in the running text of the tagged critical edition, so this “Domestic Animals” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme טָלֶה (ṭâleh, H2924) rather than independently attested here.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2922. tela טָלֶה noun masculine1Sa 7:9 lamb (Late Hebrew id., lamb; Aramaic טַלְיָא…
טָלֶה noun masculine1Sa 7:9 lamb (Late Hebrew id., lamb; Aramaic טַלְיָא lamb, youth, טַלְיְתָא girl, boy, youth, girl (compare Mar 5:41 ᵑ6); Arabic young of cloven-footed animals, especially young gazelle HomNS 235, Nedj. tully, male lamb, DoughtyArab. Desert. i. 429, ii. 269; Ethiopic flock of goats, goat, kid) — חָלָב טְלֵה 1Sa 7:9 sucking lamb (for burnt-offering); in prediction יִרְעוּ וְטָלֶה זְאֵב Isa 65:25 wolf & lamb shall feed; טְלָאִים plural of foregoing, only Isa 40:11 in metaphor of ׳י shepherding his people.
טלטלה see below טוּל.
I. טלל (√ of following; meaning dubious; perhaps denominative are Arabic (the sky) rained fine rain; Ethiopic be (moist), fat, II. fertilize).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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