מִלָּהmillâh
word, thing
Pronunciation: mil-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4406
Meanings
1. word, utterance (Daniel 4:28; Daniel 6:15; Daniel 5:10)
2. thing, affair, matter (Daniel 2:10; Daniel 2:11; Daniel 2:15)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 24 times in the Bible.
- Daniel 2:5 But the king said to the astrologers, “I am serious about this. If you don’t tell me what my dream was and what it means, you will be torn limb from limb, and your houses will be turned into heaps of rubble!
- Daniel 2:8 The king replied, “I know what you are doing! You’re stalling for time because you know I am serious when I say,
- Daniel 2:9 ‘If you don’t tell me the dream, you are doomed.’ So you have conspired to tell me lies, hoping I will change my mind. But tell me the dream, and then I’ll know that you can tell me what it means.”
- Daniel 2:10 The astrologers replied to the king, “No one on earth can tell the king his dream! And no king, however great and powerful, has ever asked such a thing of any magician, enchanter, or astrologer!
- Daniel 2:11 The king’s demand is impossible. No one except the gods can tell you your dream, and they do not live here among people.”
- Daniel 2:15 He asked Arioch, “Why has the king issued such a harsh decree?” So Arioch told him all that had happened.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).