Midvash

מָלַלmâlal

מָלַל: speak, utter, say

Pronunciation: maw-lal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4448

Meanings

Pi`el: say, utter (Genesis 21:7; Job 33:3; Psalms 106:2)

מָלַל: rub, scrape

Qal: he that winketh with his eyes, that scrapeth with his feet, that speaketh with his feet (Proverbs 6:13)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 21:7 Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse a baby? Yet I have given Abraham a son in his old age!”
  • Job 8:2 “How long will you go on like this? You sound like a blustering wind.
  • Job 33:3 I speak with all sincerity; I speak the truth.
  • Psalms 106:2 Who can list the glorious miracles of the Lord? Who can ever praise him enough?
  • Proverbs 6:13 signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye, a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers.

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).