דָּלַח
to stir up
‘to stir up’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 2 times (67%)
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1804 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 32:2 וַ/תִּדְלַח conj + Qal wimpf 2ms Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, You were likened to a young lion of the nations: yet are you as a monster in the seas; and you did break forth with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
- Ezekiel 32:13 תִדְלָחֵ֤/ם תִדְלָחֵֽ/ם Qal impf 3fs + sfx pers 3mp Qal impf 3fs + sfx pers 3mp I will destroy also all the animals of it from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of animals trouble them.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew verb דלח centers on the idea of “to stir up.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Ezekiel (100%). Debuting at Ezekiel 32:2, it then recurs through the corpus. BDB distinguishes 2 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1804 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Trouble 2×
- American Standard Version: Trouble 1×, Trouble them 1×, Troubledst 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Churning up 1×, Will disturb them 1×, Will muddy them 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Stir the waters up 1×, Stir them 1×, You stir up 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1804 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1804 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1804 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1804 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to stir up, make turbid
- (Qal) to stir up, trouble, make turbid
Word origin
[ דָּלַח ] vb. make turbid
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
דְּלַח
- 1. (as in Hebr. a. Syr.) (as in Hebr. a. Syr.) to stir up, make turbid. Targ. Is. XXX, 14 ed. (ed. Lag. זלח, h. text חשף) a sherd with which למִדְלַח מיא וכ׳ to stir up some water out of a (dried up) pool.
- 2. to be troubled, to fear. Targ. Job III, 25. Targ. Ps. XXVII, 1; a. e.—[Targ. Job XXXVIII, 25 דלח Ms., ed. דְּלָא.]
- to frighten. Targ. Job IV, 14 דַּלֵּיחַ Buxt. (some ed. a. Ms. דְּלִיחַ).—Targ. Prov. XXVIII, 14.
לַח
- לחח to be sticky, sappy, fresh) moist, green, fresh; liquid; opp. יבש. Dem. II, 3 לח ויבש either fresh or dried fruits. Ib. 5 ובלח דינר in selling fresh fruits (or liquids), a denar’s worth is wholesale; Y. ib. II, end, 23ᵃ נתנו דמים ללח וכ׳ for fresh fruit they adopt the standard of value, for dried that of quantity (cmp. לוּמָּא); Tosef. ib. III, 12 ובלח הין and for liquids the standard is a Hin. Gen. R. s. 79, beg. (play on כלח, Job V, 26) תבא לח וכ׳ thou shalt die in the possession of vigor (cmp. Deut. XXXIV, 7); a. fr.—Fem. לַחָה. Sabb. 49ᵃ כסות ל׳ a moist garment; a. fr.—Pl. לַחִים, לַחִין; לַחוֹת. Ib. ל׳ מחמת עצמן וכ׳ naturally moist, ל׳ מחמת דבר אחר moist through some incident. Y. Ber. I, 2ᶜ bot. ל׳ היו שמים וכ׳ the heavens were liquid …, and on the second day they congealed (v. גָּלַד); Gen. R. s. 4, beg. ל׳ היו מעשיהם (corr. acc.); a. fr.—V. לֵחָה. e.g. Job 5:26
לֵחַ
- m., v. לֵחָה
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H1804 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וַ/תִּדְלַח | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular | Ezekiel 32:2 | 1 |
| תִדְלָחֵ֤/ם | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ezekiel 32:13 | 1 |
| תִדְלָחֵֽ/ם | Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Ezekiel 32:13 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
