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מַחְלָה

Machlâh · H4244 · Hebrew · proper noun · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Mahlah

    Woman; daughter of Zelophehad; tribe of Manasseh

    Examples

    Numbers 26:33 Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

    Numbers 27:1 Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came forward; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

    Numbers 36:11 Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad married their uncles’ sons.

  2. Mahlah

    Person; son/daughter of Hammolecheth; tribe of Manasseh

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 7:18 His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

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What is done to itIt is the object

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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 1 entry
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Mahlah names one of the five daughters of Zelophehad, whose case established Israel's law of inheritance for daughters without brothers (Numbers 27:1; 36:11).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4244. Machlah מַחְלָה proper name, feminine 1. a daughter of Zelophehad Num 26:33; Num…
H4244. Machlah
מַחְלָה proper name, feminine 1. a daughter of Zelophehad Num 26:33; Num 27:1; Num 36:11; Jos 17:3, ᵐ5 Μα(α)λ(α)α.
2 a Gileadite name (possibly masculine) 1Ch 7:18 ᵐ5 Μαελα, ᵐ5L Μααλαθ.
[מַחֲלֶה], מַחֲלָה see I. חלה.
מְחֹלָה, see I. חול. [מְחִלָּה] see I. חלל

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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.

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