תַּאֲלָה
taʼălâh · H8381 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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curse
Action by which someone invokes the name of a deity and ask him to punish a wrong-doer; contexts in which this may happen include: (1) covenants and agreements, where the deity is asked to punish those who do not obey the terms of the agreement, (2) cases where a supposedly wrongful act has been committed, but where there is not enough certainty about the identity of the person who is responsible, and (3) in order to prevent people from committing a wrongful action, knowing that the deity's punishment will be upon them if they do so; the effectiveness of the curse partially depends on the authority of the one pronouncing it
ExamplesLamentations 3:65 You will give them shamelessness of heart, Your curse will be on them.
How it’s used In 1 role
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
- ךָyour 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
- מְאֵרָה mᵉʼêrâh · H3994 · curse
- Both lexemes denote curses with identical glosses and co-occur in a small, focused domain. This is same-language near-synonymy: two distinct Hebrew words for "curse" that can substitute for each other in sense.
- קְלָלָה qᵉlâlâh · H7045 · curse, object of cursing
- Both denote a curse or cursing.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Curse002003002008
- This noun denotes a curse, as in Lamentations 3:65's declaration that the LORD's curse will be on Israel's enemies.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8381. taalah תַּאֲלָה suffix תַּאֲלָֽתְךָ, noun feminine curse Lam 3:65.
תַּאֲלָה suffix תַּאֲלָֽתְךָ, noun feminine curse Lam 3:65.
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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