תְּעָלָהtᵉʻâlâh

תְּעָלָה: water-course

Pronunciation: teh-aw-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8585

Meanings

1.

a. water-course (Ezekiel 31:4; Job 38:25)

b. conduit (2 Kings 18:17; Isaiah 36:2; Isaiah 7:3)

c. trench (1 Kings 18:32; 1 Kings 18:35; 1 Kings 18:38)

תְּעָלָה: healing, (of new flesh and skin forming over wound) (Jeremiah 30:13; Jeremiah 46:11)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 11 times in the Bible.

  • 1 Kings 18:32 and he used the stones to rebuild the altar in the name of the Lord. Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough to hold about three gallons.
  • 1 Kings 18:35 and the water ran around the altar and even filled the trench.
  • 1 Kings 18:38 Immediately the fire of the Lord flashed down from heaven and burned up the young bull, the wood, the stones, and the dust. It even licked up all the water in the trench!
  • 2 Kings 18:17 Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent his commander in chief, his field commander, and his chief of staff from Lachish with a huge army to confront King Hezekiah in Jerusalem. The Assyrians took up a position beside the aqueduct that feeds water into the upper pool, near the road leading to the field where cloth is washed.
  • 2 Kings 20:20 The rest of the events in Hezekiah’s reign, including the extent of his power and how he built a pool and dug a tunnel to bring water into the city, are recorded in The Book of the History of the Kings of Judah.
  • Job 38:25 “Who created a channel for the torrents of rain? Who laid out the path for the lightning?
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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).