Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1803
דַּלָּה
dallahdal-law'
hair; poor
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: dallâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1803is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1803
properly, something dangling, i.e. a loose thread or hair; figuratively, indigent
The King James renders it: hair, pining sickness, poor(-est sort).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
dallah is rendered "hair; poor". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "hair".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 41:19After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
Genesis 41:19דַּלּ֨וֹת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eight uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: hair, and poor.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| hairStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 41:19After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up… |
| poorStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and some of poor people of4
- and hair of1
- from loom1
- poor people of1
- weak1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּמִדַּלַּ֣ת2
- דַּלּ֨וֹת1
- דַּלַּ֥ת1
- וְדַלַּ֥ת1
- וּמִדַּלּ֨וֹת1
- וּמִדַּלּ֣וֹת1
- מִדַּלָּ֣ה1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HC/R/Ncfpc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HC/R/Ncfsc
- adjective · feminine plural1HAafpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Genesis
one use
After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
- דַּלּ֨וֹתdalotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: weak
2 Kings
two uses
He carried into exile all Jerusalem—all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths—ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained.
- דַּלַּ֥תdalatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: poor people of
But the captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
- וּמִדַּלַּ֣תumiddalatconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and some of poor people of
Song of Solomon
one use
Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.
- וְדַלַּ֥תvedalatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and hair of
Isaiah
one use
My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
- מִדַּלָּ֣הmidalahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: from loom
Jeremiah
three uses
When all the commanders and men of the armies in the field heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in charge of the men, women, and children who were the poorest of the land and had not been exiled to Babylon,
- וּמִדַּלַּ֣תumidalatconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and some of poor people of
Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen.
- וּמִדַּלּ֨וֹתumidalotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and some of poor people of
But Nebuzaradan captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
- וּמִדַּלּ֣וֹתumidalotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and some of poor people of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.