מְחִלָּה
mᵉchillâh · H4247 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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a hole
Meaning unsure, possibly a hole in the ground which can be used as a hiding-place
ExamplesIsaiah 2:19 People will go into caves of the rocks And into holes in the ground Away from the terror of the LORD And the splendor of His majesty, When He arises to terrify the earth.
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
- עָפָרdust, dirt 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 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
- מְעָרָה mᵉʻârâh · H4631 · cave
- The standard and most frequent Hebrew word for 'cave' (e.g., cave of Machpelah, cave of Adullam); מְחִלָּה appears to be a rare synonym or variant term for the same concept.
- חוֹר chôwr · H2356 · hole, den, socket
- A more general term for 'hole' that can include caves or cavities in rocks; semantically overlaps with cave terminology though less specific than מְעָרָה.
In the other Testament 1 word
- σπήλαιον spḗlaion · G4693 · cave, den, hideout
- Standard Greek translation equivalent for 'cave' in the LXX and NT; the ordinary Greek word for a natural cave or cavern.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landforms001002003
- מְחִלָּה, occurring once in Isaiah 2:19 of people hiding "in caves of the rocks," names a cave or hollow in the earth.
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4247. mechillah [מְחִלָּה] noun feminine hole, עָפָר מְחִלּוֺת holes of the dust Isa…
[מְחִלָּה] noun feminine hole, עָפָר מְחִלּוֺת holes of the dust Isa 2:19 (|| צֻרִים מְעָרוֺת caves of the rocks).
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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