Hebrew verb · H8518
תָּלָה
talahtaw-law'
to hang
27 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tâlâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8518is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 27spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8518
to suspend (especially to gibbet)
The King James renders it: hang (up).
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
talah is rendered "to hang". It stands 27 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 40:19Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”
- The Greek text spells it twenty-seven different ways.
The first use
Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”
Genesis 40:19וְתָלָ֥ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Nine of the word's twenty-seven uses are in Esther.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he hanged3
- and they hanged2
- they hung up2
- to hang2
- and he hanged them1
- and he will hang1
- and people will hang1
- and they were hanged1
- and they will hang1
- and you will hang1
- hang him1
- hanged1
and 10 more, 27 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.
All 27, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
27 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
- וְיִתְל֤וּ1
- וַיִּתְל֥וּ1
- וַיִּתְלוּ֙1
- וַיִּתָּל֥וּ1
- וַיִּתְלֵ֕ם1
- וְתָלָ֥ה1
- וְתָל֨וּ1
- וְתָל֥וּ1
- וְתָלִ֥יתָ1
- יִתְל֥וּ1
- לִתְל֥וֹת1
- לִתְלוֹת֙1
and 15 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular3HVqsmsa
- Hc/Vqq3cp2Hc/Vqq3cp
- Hc/Vqw3mp2Hc/Vqw3mp
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVpp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVqp3cp
- Hc/VNw3mp1Hc/VNw3mp
- Hc/Vqq2ms1Hc/Vqq2ms
- Hc/Vqq3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms
- HC/Vqu3mp1HC/Vqu3mp
- Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mp1Hc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mp
Genesis
three uses
Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”
- וְתָלָ֥הvetalahHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will hang
But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.
- תָּלָ֑הtalahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he hanged
And it happened to us just as he had interpreted: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.”
- תָלָֽה׃talahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he hanged
Deuteronomy
two uses
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
- וְתָלִ֥יתָvetalitaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will hang
you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
- תָּל֑וּיtaluiverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: is hanged
Joshua
three uses
He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.
- תָּלָ֥הtalahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he hanged
After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.
- וַיִּתְלֵ֕םvaiyitlemHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he hanged them
- תְּלוּיִ֥םteluyimverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: hanged
2 Samuel
two uses
So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.
- וַיִּתְל֥וּvaiyitluHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they hanged
When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”
- תָּל֖וּיtaluiverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: hung up
Esther
nine uses
After the report had been investigated and verified, both officials were hanged on the gallows. And all this was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.
- וַיִּתָּל֥וּvaiyitaluHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were hanged
His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.
- וְיִתְל֤וּveyitluHC/Vqu3mptagged: so people may hang
“Who is in the court?” the king asked. Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.
- לִתְלוֹת֙litlotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to hang
Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.
- תְּלֻ֥הוּteluhuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: hang him
So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
- וַיִּתְלוּ֙vaiyitluHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they hanged
So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.
- תָּל֣וּtaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have hanged
Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
- יִתְל֥וּyitluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: let them hang
So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.
- תָּלֽוּ׃taluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people hanged
But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
- וְתָל֥וּvetaluHc/Vqq3cptagged: and people will hang
Job
one use
He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
- תֹּ֥לֶהtolehverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: hangs
Psalms
one use
There on the willows we hung our harps,
- תָּ֝לִ֗ינוּtalinuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we hung up
Song of Solomon
one use
Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
- תָּל֣וּיtaluiverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: hung
Isaiah
one use
So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.
- וְתָל֨וּvetaluHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will hang
Lamentations
one use
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
- נִתְל֔וּnitluverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been hanged
Ezekiel
three uses
Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can one make from it a peg on which to hang utensils?
- לִתְל֥וֹתlitlotpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to hang
Men of Persia, Lydia, and Put served as warriors in your army. They hung their shields and helmets on your walls; they gave you splendor.
- תִּלּוּ־tilu-verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they hung up
Men of Arvad and Helech manned your walls all around, and the men of Gammad were in your towers. They hung their shields around your walls; they perfected your beauty.
- תִּלּ֤וּtiluverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they hung up
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.
