טָלַל
ṭâlal · H2926 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to roof, to cover
Causative action by which humans rebuild or repair a roof or the roof-like part of a construction
ExamplesNehemiah 3:15 Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, the official of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He built it, made a roof for it, and installed its doors with its bolts and its bars, and the wall of the Pool of Shelah at the king’s garden as far as the steps that descend from the city of David.
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
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- וֹhim 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- כָּסָה kâçâh · H3680 · to cover, to be covered, to cover oneself
- The standard Hebrew verb for 'cover,' used over 150 times in the Hebrew Bible. Both כָּסָה and טָלַל denote the action of covering, though כָּסָה is the far more common term and has a broader range of covering contexts (physical, metaphorical).
- סָכַךְ çâkak · H5526 · to cover, to cover oneself
- Hebrew verb meaning to cover, screen, or provide shelter, often with the nuance of protective covering or shade. Shares with טָלַל the sense of providing covering or shelter, particularly in contexts of protection.
Contrasting words 1 word
- גָּלָה gâlâh · H1540 · to reveal
- Hebrew verb meaning to uncover, reveal, or expose—the direct lexical opposite of covering. Where טָלַל denotes covering something, גָּלָה denotes the removal of covering or the action of exposing what was hidden.
In the other Testament 1 word
- καλύπτω kalýptō · G2572 · to cover, to cover over, to hide
- Greek verb meaning to cover or conceal, the most common Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew verbs in the 'cover' semantic field. Would be a natural rendering choice for טָלַל in a Greek translation context.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- טָלַל occurs only once, at Nehemiah 3:15, describing the roof built "for it" over the Fountain Gate — a genuine sense of covering or roofing over a structure.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2926. talal II. [טָלַל] verb cover over, roof, Aramaic loan-word, see צלל ( cover over,…
II. [טָלַל] verb cover over, roof, Aramaic loan-word, see צלל ( cover over, especially put on roof, roof, στέγη: so Palmyrene see EutSBAk, 1885, 669) — only
Pi`el Imperfect3masculine singular suffix וִיטַלֲלֶנּוּ Neh 3:15 he built it (kept on building it, i.e. a city-gate) and covered it over (laid timbers to cover it, compare קֵרוּהוּ they laid its timbers Neh 3:3; Neh 3:6; see also קֹרָתִי בְּצֵל Gen 19:8 in the shadow of my roof).
טלם (√ of following; perhaps compare Arabic ; Aramaic טְלַם, ; Ethiopic all oppress, injure; in this case טַלְמֹן טֶלֶם, will be Aramaic names, since = Hebrew צ).
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
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