תָּלָהtâlâh
hang
Pronunciation: taw-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8518
Meanings
Qal: hang (Genesis 40:22; Deuteronomy 21:22; Esther 8:7)
1. hang up, any object (2 Samuel 4:12; 2 Samuel 18:10; Isaiah 22:24)
2. specifically put to death by hanging (Genesis 40:22; Genesis 41:13; 2 Samuel 21:12)
Niph`al: been hung up (Lamentations 5:12; Esther 2:23; 2 Samuel 18:9)
Pi`el: hang up, for display (Ezekiel 27:10; Ezekiel 27:11)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 27 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 40:19 Three days from now Pharaoh will lift you up and impale your body on a pole. Then birds will come and peck away at your flesh.”
- Genesis 40:22 But Pharaoh impaled the chief baker, just as Joseph had predicted when he interpreted his dream.
- Genesis 41:13 And everything happened just as he had predicted. I was restored to my position as cup-bearer, and the chief baker was executed and impaled on a pole.”
- Deuteronomy 21:22 “If someone has committed a crime worthy of death and is executed and hung on a tree,
- Deuteronomy 21:23 the body must not remain hanging from the tree overnight. You must bury the body that same day, for anyone who is hung is cursed in the sight of God. In this way, you will prevent the defilement of the land the Lord your God is giving you as your special possession.
- Joshua 8:29 Joshua impaled the king of Ai on a sharpened pole and left him there until evening. At sunset the Israelites took down the body, as Joshua commanded, and threw it in front of the town gate. They piled a great heap of stones over him that can still be seen today.
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).