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Hebrew noun (Aramaic, feminine) · H4406

מִלָּה

millahmil-law'

word

24 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: millâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4406is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 22
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4406

a word, command, discourse, or subject

The King James renders it: commandment, matter, thing. word.

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

millah is rendered "word". It stands 24 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.

  • Twenty-four of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:5The king replied to the astrologers, “My word is final: If you do not tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut into pieces and your houses will be reduced to rubble.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-two different ways.

The first use

The king replied to the astrologers, “My word is final: If you do not tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut into pieces and your houses will be reduced to rubble.

Daniel 2:5מִלְּתָ֖א

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twenty-four of the word's twenty-four uses are in Daniel.

The other 38 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • word the6
  • matter the5
  • and matter the2
  • matter of2
  • a matter1
  • and a word1
  • and word of1
  • and words1
  • matters1
  • matters the1
  • word of1
  • words of1

and 1 more, 24 uses in all

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.

מִלָּהmillahspeechUses38

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 24, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

22 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

  • מִלְּתָ֖א2
  • מִלְּתָ֑א2
  • וּמִלָּ֨ה1
  • וּמִלִּ֗ין1
  • וּמִלַּ֤ת1
  • וּמִלְּתָ֨א1
  • וּמִלְּתָ֖א1
  • מִלָּ֤ה1
  • מִלֵּ֤י1
  • מִלַּיָּ֣א1
  • מִלַּיָּ֖א1
  • מִלִּ֖ין1

and 10 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)11ANcfsd/Ta
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)3ANcfsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)2AC/Ncfsd/Ta
  • noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)2ANcmpd/Ta
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1AC/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1AC/Ncfsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1AC/Ncmpa
  • noun · feminine singular1ANcfsa
  • noun · masculine plural1ANcmpa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1ANcmpc

Daniel

twenty-four uses
  • The king replied to the astrologers, “My word is final: If you do not tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut into pieces and your houses will be reduced to rubble.

    Daniel 2:5

    • מִלְּתָ֖אmileta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: word the
  • The king replied, “I know for sure that you are stalling for time, because you see that my word is final.

    Daniel 2:8

    • מִלְּתָֽא׃mileta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: word the
  • If you do not tell me the dream, there is only one decree for you. You have conspired to speak before me false and fraudulent words, hoping the situation will change. Therefore tell me the dream, and I will know that you can give me its interpretation.”

    Daniel 2:9

    • וּמִלָּ֨הumilahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a word
  • The astrologers answered the king, “No one on earth can do what the king requests! No king, however great and powerful, has ever asked anything like this of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer.

    Daniel 2:10

    • מִלַּ֣תmilatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: matter of
    • מִלָּ֤הmilahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a matter
  • What the king requests is so difficult that no one can tell it to him except the gods, whose dwelling is not with mortals.”

    Daniel 2:11

    • וּמִלְּתָ֨אumileta'conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: and matter the
  • “Why is the decree from the king so harsh?” he asked. At this time Arioch explained the situation to Daniel.

    Daniel 2:15

    • מִלְּתָ֔אmileta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: matter the
  • Then Daniel returned to his house and explained the matter to his friends Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

    Daniel 2:17

    • מִלְּתָ֥אmileta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: matter the
  • To You, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, because You have given me wisdom and power. And now You have made known to me what we have requested, for You have made known to us the dream of the king.”

    Daniel 2:23

    • מִלַּ֥תmilatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: matter of
  • The king’s command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the fiery flames killed the men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

    Daniel 3:22

    • מִלַּ֤תmilatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: word of
  • Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.

    Daniel 3:28

    • וּמִלַּ֤תumilatconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and word of
  • While the words were still in the king’s mouth, a voice came from heaven: “It is decreed to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that the kingdom has departed from you.

    Daniel 4:31

    • מִלְּתָא֙mileta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: word the
  • At that moment the sentence against Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from mankind. He ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.

    Daniel 4:33

    • מִלְּתָא֮mileta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: word the
  • Hearing the outcry of the king and his nobles, the queen entered the banquet hall. “O king, may you live forever!” she said. “Do not let your thoughts terrify you, or your face grow pale.

    Daniel 5:10

    • מִלֵּ֤יmileinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: words of
  • Now the wise men and enchanters were brought before me to read this inscription and interpret it for me, but they could not give its interpretation.

    Daniel 5:15

    • מִלְּתָ֖אmileta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: matter the
  • And this is the interpretation of the message: MENE means that God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

    Daniel 5:26

    • מִלְּתָ֑אmileta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: matter the
  • So they approached the king and asked about his royal decree: “Did you not sign a decree that for thirty days any man who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions?” The king replied, “According to the law of the Medes and Persians the order stands, and it cannot be repealed.”

    Daniel 6:12

    • מִלְּתָ֛אmileta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: word the
  • As soon as the king heard this, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel, and he labored until sundown to rescue him.

    Daniel 6:14

    • מִלְּתָ֣אmileta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: word the
  • In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar over Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he lay on his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is the summary of his account.

    Daniel 7:1

    • מִלִּ֖יןmilinnoun · masculine pluraltagged: matters
  • Then I kept watching because of the arrogant words the horn was speaking. As I continued to watch, the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire.

    Daniel 7:11

    • מִלַּיָּ֣אmilaiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: words the
  • I approached one of those who were standing there, and I asked him the true meaning of all this. So he told me the interpretation of these things:

    Daniel 7:16

    • מִלַּיָּ֖אmilaiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: matters the
  • He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.

    Daniel 7:25

    • וּמִלִּ֗יןumilinconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and words
  • Thus ends the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts troubled me greatly, and my face turned pale. But I kept the matter to myself.”

    Daniel 7:28

    • מִלְּתָ֑אmileta'noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: matter the
    • וּמִלְּתָ֖אumileta'conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: and matter the

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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