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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

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:19 - In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:22 - But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:13 - And as he interpreted to us, so it came about. I was restored to my office, and the baker was hanged.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:22 - “And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:26 - And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees. And they hung on the trees until evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:12 - And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:10 - And a certain man saw it and told Joab, “Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 21:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:23 - When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows.[fn] And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.

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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, “Let a gallows[fn] fifty cubits[fn] high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast.” This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, the gallows[fn] that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman’s house, fifty cubits[fn] high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:10 - So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.

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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,[fn] because he intended to lay hands on the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:13 - And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day’s edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:14 - So the king commanded this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:25 - But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 26:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 26:7 - He stretches out the north over the void
and hangs the earth on nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 137:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:2 - On the willows[fn] there
we hung up our lyres.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:24 - And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father’s house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 15:3 - Is wood taken from it to make anything? Do people take a peg from it to hang any vessel on it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:10 - “Persia and Lud and Put were in your army as your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you; they gave you splendor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 27:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:11 - Men of Arvad and Helech were on your walls all around, and men of Gamad were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they made perfect your beauty.
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