Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H4449
מְלַל
melalmel-al'
to speak
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉlal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4449is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4449
to speak
The King James renders it: say, speak(-ing).
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
melal is rendered "to speak". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Five of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 6:21Then Daniel replied, “O king, may you live forever!
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Then Daniel replied, “O king, may you live forever!
Daniel 6:21מַלִּ֑ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's five uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- speaking3
- he spoke1
- he will speak1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- יְמַלִּ֔ל1
- מַלִּ֑ל1
- מְמַלִּ֥ל1
- מְמַלִּ֣ל1
- מְמַלֱּלָ֑ה1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular2AVprmsa
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AVpi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1AVpp3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singular1AVprfsa
Daniel
five uses
Then Daniel replied, “O king, may you live forever!
- מַלִּ֑לmalilverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he spoke
While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
- מְמַלִּ֥לmemalilverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: speaking
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.
- מְמַלֱּלָ֑הmemalelahverb · intensive (piel), participle · feminine singulartagged: speaking
I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn whose appearance was more imposing than the others, with eyes and with a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
- מְמַלִּ֣לmemalilverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: speaking
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.
- יְמַלִּ֔לyemalilverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will speak
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.