Lexicon :: Strong's H8518 - tālâ

“In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head ​— ​from off you ​— ​and hang you on a tree.[fn] Then the birds will eat the flesh from your body.”[fn]

But Pharaoh hanged[fn] the chief baker, just as Joseph had explained to them.

“It turned out just the way he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.”

“If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

He hung[fn] the body of the king of Ai on a tree[fn] until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take his body down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and put a large pile of rocks over it, which still remains today.

After this, Joshua struck them down and executed them. He hung[fn] their bodies on five trees[fn] and they were there until evening.

So David gave orders to the young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took Ish-bosheth’s head and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.

One of the men saw him and informed Joab. He said, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree! ”

he went and got the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh-gilead. They had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies the day the Philistines killed Saul at Gilboa.

When the report was investigated and verified, both men were hanged on the gallows. This event was recorded in the Historical Record in the king’s presence.

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows seventy-five feet[fn] tall. Ask the king in the morning to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.

The king asked, “Who is in the court? ” Now Haman was just entering the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.

Harbona, one of the king’s eunuchs, said, “There is a gallows seventy-five feet[fn] tall at Haman’s house that he made for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved[fn] the king.”

The king said, “Hang him on it.”

King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “Look, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked[fn] the Jews.

Esther answered, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews who are in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s law, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hung on the gallows.”

But when the matter was brought before the king, he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

He stretches the northern skies over empty space;

he hangs the earth on nothing.

There we hung up our lyres

on the poplar trees,

Your neck is like the tower of David,

constructed in layers.

A thousand shields are hung on it —

all of them shields of warriors.

“They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s family: the descendants and the offshoots ​— ​all the small vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.

Princes have been hung up by their hands;

elders are shown no respect.

“Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?

“Men of Persia, Lud, and Put

were in your army, serving as your warriors.

They hung shields and helmets in you;

they gave you splendor.