Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4039
מְגִלָּה
megillahmeg-il-law'
scroll
21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉgillâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4039is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4039
a roll
The King James renders it: roll, volume.
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
megillah is rendered "scroll". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 40:7Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll:
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll:
Psalms 40:7בִּמְגִלַּת־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's twenty-one uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the scroll12
- a scroll4
- a scroll of3
- in scroll of1
- in the scroll1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- הַמְּגִלָּה֙3
- הַמְּגִלָּ֣ה3
- מְגִלָּ֣ה3
- מְגִלַּת־3
- הַמְּגִלָּ֔ה2
- בַמְּגִלָּ֣ה1
- בִּמְגִלַּת־1
- הַמְּגִלָּ֗ה1
- הַמְּגִלָּ֑ה1
- הַמְּגִלָּ֤ה1
- הַמְּגִלָּ֥ה1
- מְגִלָּ֥ה1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular12HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular4HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
Psalms
one use
Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll:
- בִּמְגִלַּת־bimgilat-preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in scroll of
Jeremiah
fourteen uses
“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.
- מְגִלַּת־megilat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a scroll of
So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and at the dictation of Jeremiah, Baruch wrote on a scroll all the words that the LORD had spoken to Jeremiah.
- מְגִלַּת־megilat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a scroll of
so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities.
- בַמְּגִלָּ֣הvamegilahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the scroll
Then all the officials sent word to Baruch through Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, saying, “Bring the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come here.” So Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll and went to them.
- הַמְּגִלָּ֗הhamegilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the scroll
- הַמְּגִלָּה֙hamegilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the scroll
So the officials went to the king in the courtyard. And having stored the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, they reported everything to the king.
- הַמְּגִלָּ֣הhamegilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the scroll
Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing beside him.
- הַמְּגִלָּ֔הhamegilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the scroll
And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
- הַמְּגִלָּ֔הhamegilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the scroll
Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
- הַמְּגִלָּ֑הhamegilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the scroll
After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
- הַמְּגִלָּה֙hamegilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the scroll
“Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.
- מְגִלָּ֣הmegilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a scroll
- הַמְּגִלָּה֙hamegilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the scroll
You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’
- הַמְּגִלָּ֤הhamegilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the scroll
Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
- מְגִלָּ֣הmegilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a scroll
Ezekiel
four uses
Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll,
- מְגִלַּת־megilat-noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a scroll of
“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.”
- הַמְּגִלָּ֣הhamegilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the scroll
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me the scroll.
- הַמְּגִלָּ֥הhamegilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the scroll
“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.
- הַמְּגִלָּ֣הhamegilahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the scroll
Zechariah
two uses
Again I lifted up my eyes and saw before me a flying scroll.
- מְגִלָּ֥הmegilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a scroll
“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
- מְגִלָּ֣הmegilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a scroll
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.