Word

מַרְגְלָה

margᵉlâh · H4772 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

feet, legs

The lower part of the lower limb of the body of humans, which in some contexts may include the full leg; used for standing and walking

Examples
Ruth 3:4 “And it shall be when he lies down, that you shall take notice of the place where he lies, and you shall go and uncover his feet and lie down; then he will tell you what you should do.”
Ruth 3:7 When Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was cheerful, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain; and she came secretly, and uncovered his feet and lay down.
Ruth 3:8 And it happened in the middle of the night that the man was startled and bent forward; and behold, a woman was lying at his feet.

How it’s used In 3 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

5 occurrences in 1 groups

הוּhis 5

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

גָּלָהto uncover, to reveal, to go into exile 2

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עַיִןeye, sight 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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In the other Testament 1 word

πούς poús · G4228 · foot, to be very hospitable to: Greek πούς (poús, G4228) is the standard New Testament rendering of Hebrew מַרְגְלָה (margᵉlâh, H4772), both denoting the physical foot or feet; the Hebrew term appears primarily in the phrase 'at the feet' (spatial positioning), which πούς straightforwardly translates in Septuagintal context.

Semantic domains 1 entry

People001001003: The word denotes feet in the bodily, human sense, as when Ruth uncovers Boaz's feet at the threshing floor, or the feet of the radiant figure Daniel saw in his vision.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4772. margeloth [מַרְגְּלוֺת] noun [feminine] plural denominative place of the feet,…

H4772. margeloth
[מַרְגְּלוֺת] noun [feminine]
plural denominative place of the feet, feet (compare [מְרַאֲשׁוֺת] below I. ראשׁ); &; suffix מַרְגְּםתָיו place of his feet Rth 3:4, Rth 3:7; adverb = at his feet Rth 3:8 + Rth 3:14 Qr (Kt מרגלתו); = his feet Dan 10:6 (opposed to זְרֹעֹתָיו).

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.

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