תְּלַג
tᵉlag · H8517 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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snow
Frozen crystallized water vapor in the form of very white flakes which fall as precipitation from the sky and cover the ground during freezing cold weather; as soon as the temperature rises above freezing, it melts and becomes water; associated with cold, whiteness, or purity
ExamplesDaniel 7:9 “I kept looking Until thrones were set up, And the Ancient of Days took His seat; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with flames, Its wheels were a burning fire.
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
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חִוָּרwhite 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לְבוּשׁgarment 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 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 1 word
- קֶרַח qerach · H7140 · cold, ice
- Both words denote frozen forms of water precipitation, frost, ice or crystal versus snow, overlapping in meteorological sense and potentially substitutable in poetic and descriptive contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Rain001002005011
- Daniel 7:9 recounts that in Daniel's vision the Ancient of Days took His seat, "His garment was white as snow."
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
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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