Midvash

תָּלָאtâlâʼ

hang, || form of תלה

Pronunciation: taw-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8511

Meanings

Qal: had hanged them, hung up (2 Samuel 21:12; Deuteronomy 28:66; Hosea 11:7)

Where it appears

Appears 3 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 28:66 Your life will constantly hang in the balance. You will live night and day in fear, unsure if you will survive.
  • 2 Samuel 21:12 he went to the people of Jabesh-gilead and retrieved the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan. (When the Philistines had killed Saul and Jonathan on Mount Gilboa, the people of Jabesh-gilead stole their bodies from the public square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hung them.)
  • Hosea 11:7 For my people are determined to desert me. They call me the Most High, but they don’t truly honor me.

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).