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Lexicon :: Strong's H8518 - tālâ

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תָּלָה
Transliteration
tālâ
Pronunciation
taw-law'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2512

Strong’s Definitions

תָּלָה tâlâh, taw-law'; a primitive root; to suspend (especially to gibbet):—hang (up).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x

The KJV translates Strong's H8518 in the following manner: hang (25x), hang up (2x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x
The KJV translates Strong's H8518 in the following manner: hang (25x), hang up (2x), variant (1x).

  1. to hang

    1. (Qal)

      1. to hang

        1. to hang up (any object)

        2. to put to death by hanging

    2. (Niphal) to be hanged

    3. (Piel) to hang, hang up (for display)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תָּלָה tâlâh, taw-law'; a primitive root; to suspend (especially to gibbet):—hang (up).
STRONGS H8518: Abbreviations
† תָּלָה verb hang (Late Hebrew id.; Assyrian Pi. tullû, hang up; Arabic bdb106704 let down, dangle (a rope, etc.); Aramaic תְּלָא, bdb106705 hang; perhaps Old Aramaic תלה id., Lzb386; Ethiopic bdb106801 in derived sense, be devoted, addicted, to); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular ת׳ Genesis 40:22 +; 2nd person masculine singular וְתָלִ֫יתָ Deuteronomy 21:22 consecutive; 3rd person plural תָּלוּ Esther 8:7; Esther 9:14 suffix תלום 2 Samuel 21:12 Kt (Qr see תלא), etc.; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix וַיִּתְלֵם Joshua 10:26, etc.; Imperative masculine plural suffix תְּלֻהוּ Esther 7:9; Infinitive construct לִתְלוֺת Ezekiel 15:3; Esther 6:4; Participle active תֹּלֶה Job 26:7; passive תָּלוּי Deuteronomy 31:23 + 2 times, plural תְּלוּיִם Joshua 10:26; — hang:
1. hang up any object: accusative of hands and feet of slain, + עַלהַֿבְּרֵכָה 2 Samuel 4:12; תָּלוּי of Absalom בָּאֵלָה in the terebinth 2 Samuel 18:10; ת׳ with accusative of thing, + עַל Isaiah 22:24; Ezekiel 15:3; Songs 4:4; Psalm 137:2; subject י׳, אֶרֶץ עַלבְּֿלִימָה ת׳ Job 26:7.
2. specifically put to death by hanging, with accusative of person Genesis 40:22; Genesis 41:13 (both E), 2 Samuel 21:12 (compare תלא), Esther 9:14; absolute תָּלוּי Deuteronomy 21:23 one hanged; accusative of person + עַלעֵֿץ Genesis 40:19 (E), Deuteronomy 21:22; Joshua 8:29; Joshua 10:26 (twice in verse) (all J E), Esther 5:14; Esther 6:4; Esther 7:9, 10; Esther 8:7; Esther 9:13, 25.
Niph. Perfect 3rd person plural שָׂרִים בְּיָדָם נִתְלוּ Lamentations 5:12 princes have been hung up by their hands; Imperfect 3rd person masculine plural וַיִּתָּלוּ עַלעֵֿץ Esther 2:23 they were hanged on a tree; + 3rd person masculine singular with apocope וַיִּתָּל 2 Samuel 18:9 (for וַיּתַֻּן see נתן Hoph.).
Pi. hang up for display, with accusative of thing: Perfect 3rd person plural תִּלּוּ Ezekiel 27:10 (ב location), Ezekiel 27:11 (עַלאחוֺמוֺתַיִךְ).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

40:19; 40:22; 40:22; 41:13

Deuteronomy

21:22; 21:22; 21:23; 31:23

Joshua

8:29; 10:26; 10:26; 10:26

2 Samuel

4:12; 18:9; 18:10; 21:12; 21:12

Esther

2:23; 5:14; 6:4; 6:4; 7:9; 7:9; 7:10; 8:7; 8:7; 9:13; 9:14; 9:14; 9:25

Job

26:7; 26:7

Psalms

137:2

Song of Songs

4:4

Isaiah

22:24

Lamentations

5:12

Ezekiel

15:3; 15:3; 27:10; 27:11

H8518

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Strong's Number H8518 matches the Hebrew תָּלָה (tālâ),
which occurs 29 times in 27 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:19 - within three more days Pharaoh will [fn]lift up your head and will hang you on a tree (gallows, pole), and [you will not so much as be given a burial, but] the birds will eat your flesh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:22 - but Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted [the meaning of the dreams] to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:13 - “And just as he interpreted [the dreams] for us, so it happened; I was restored to my office [as chief cupbearer], and the baker was hanged.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:22 -

“And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death and [[fn]afterward] you hang him on a tree [as a public example],

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his body shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall most certainly bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is cursed by God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - He [fn]hanged [the body of] the king of Ai on a tree [leaving it there] until evening; at sunset Joshua gave a command and they took the body down from the tree and dumped it at the entrance of the city gate, and piled a great heap of stones over it that stands to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:26 - Then afterward Joshua struck them [with his sword] and put them to death, and he hung them on five trees; and they [fn]hung on the trees until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12 - So David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hung them beside the pool in Hebron. But they took Ish-bosheth’s head and buried it in Hebron in the tomb of Abner [his relative].

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:10 - A certain man saw it and informed Joab, saying, “I saw Absalom hanging in a tree.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:12 - Then David went and took the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the open square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day when the Philistines had killed Saul in Gilboa.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:23 - Now when the plot was investigated and found to be true, both men were [fn]hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the king’s presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows [fn]fifty cubits high made, and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go joyfully to the banquet with the king.” And the advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:4 - So the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace to ask the king about [fn]hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs serving the king said, “Now look, there are gallows fifty cubits (75 ft.) high standing at Haman’s house, which Haman made for Mordecai, whose good warning saved the king.” And the king said, “Hang him on it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:10 - So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:7 - Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he stretched out his hand against the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:13 - Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to act tomorrow also in accordance with the decree of today; and let [the dead bodies of] Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:14 - So the king commanded it to be done; the decree was given in Susa, and they hanged [the bodies of] Haman’s ten sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:25 - But when it came before the king, he commanded in writing that Haman’s wicked scheme which he had devised against the Jews was to return on his own head, and that he and his sons should [endure what he planned for the Jews and] be hanged on the gallows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:7 -

“It is He who spreads out the north over emptiness

And [fn]hangs the earth on nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:2 -

On the willow trees in the midst of Babylon

We hung our harps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:4 -

“Your neck is like the tower of David,

Built with rows of [glistening] stones,

Whereon hang a thousand shields,

All of them shields of warriors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:24 -

“So they will hang on him all the honor and glory [the complete responsibility] of his father’s house, offspring and issue [of the family, high and low], all the least of the articles, from the bowls to all the jars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:12 -

Princes were hung by their hands;

Elders were not respected.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:3 - “Can wood be taken from it to make any object? Or can men take a peg from it on which to hang any vessel?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:10 -

“Persia and Lud and Put (Libya) were in your army as your men of war. They hung the shield and the helmet on you; they gave you splendor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:11 - “The men of Arvad with your army were upon your walls, all around, and the Gammadim (men of valor) were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls, all around; they perfected your beauty.
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