Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NIV

NIV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H8518 - tālâ

Choose a new font size and typeface
תָּלָה
Transliteration
tālâ
Pronunciation
taw-law'
Listen
Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:19 - Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and impale your body on a pole. And the birds will eat away your flesh.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:22 - but he impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had said to them in his interpretation.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:13 - And things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was impaled.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:22 - If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse. You must not desecrate the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:26 - Then Joshua put the kings to death and exposed their bodies on five poles, and they were left hanging on the poles until evening.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12 - So David gave an order to his men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung the bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-Bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb at Hebron.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:10 - When one of the men saw what had happened, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:12 - he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead. (They had stolen their bodies from the public square at Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hung them after they struck Saul down on Gilboa.)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:23 - And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled on poles. All this was recorded in the book of the annals in the presence of the king.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - His wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a pole set up, reaching to a height of fifty cubits,[fn] and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai impaled on it. Then go with the king to the banquet and enjoy yourself.” This suggestion delighted Haman, and he had the pole set up.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:4 - The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to speak to the king about impaling Mordecai on the pole he had set up for him.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “A pole reaching to a height of fifty cubits[fn] stands by Haman’s house. He had it set up for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.” The king said, “Impale him on it!”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:10 - So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king’s fury subsided.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:7 - King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther, and they have impaled him on the pole he set up.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:13 - “If it pleases the king,” Esther answered, “give the Jews in Susa permission to carry out this day’s edict tomorrow also, and let Haman’s ten sons be impaled on poles.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:14 - So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they impaled the ten sons of Haman.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:25 - But when the plot came to the king’s attention,[fn] he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Job 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:7 - He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:2 - There on the poplars we hung our harps,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:4 - Your neck is like the tower of David, built with courses of stone[fn]; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:24 - All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:12 - Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:3 - Is wood ever taken from it to make anything useful? Do they make pegs from it to hang things on?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:10 - “ ‘Men of Persia, Lydia and Put served as soldiers in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls, bringing you splendor.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:11 - Men of Arvad and Helek guarded your walls on every side; men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their shields around your walls; they brought your beauty to perfection.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NIV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NIV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.