טַל
dew
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 24 times (77%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 7 times (23%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 31 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2919 appears — 30 distinct verses across 16 books. 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.
Genesis 2 verses
- Genesis 27:28 מִ/טַּל֙ prep + n c ms cs God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
- Genesis 27:39 וּ/מִ/טַּ֥ל conj + prep + n c ms cs Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
Exodus 2 verses
- Exodus 16:13 הַ/טַּ֔ל ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
- Exodus 16:14 הַ/טָּ֑ל ptcl def.art + n c ms When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground.
Numbers 1 verse
Deuteronomy 3 verses
- Deuteronomy 32:2 כַּ/טַּ֖ל prep det + n c ms My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall condense as the dew, As the small rain on the tender grass, As the showers on the herb.
- Deuteronomy 33:13 מִ/טָּ֔ל prep + n c ms Of Joseph he said, Blessed of Yahweh be his land, For the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, For the deep that couches beneath,
- Deuteronomy 33:28 טָֽל n c ms Israel dwells in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
Judges 4 verses
- Judges 6:37 טַל֩ n c ms behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.
- Judges 6:38 טַל֙ n c ms It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
- Judges 6:39 טָּֽל n c ms Gideon said to God, Don't let your anger be kindled against me, and I will speak but this once: Please let me make a trial just this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only on the fleece, and on all the ground let there be dew.
- Judges 6:40 טָֽל n c ms God did so that night: for it was dry on the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
2 Samuel 2 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:21 טַ֧ל n c ms You mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain on you, neither fields of offerings: For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
- 2 Samuel 17:12 הַ/טַּ֖ל ptcl def.art + n c ms So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.
1 Kings 1 verse
Job 2 verses
Psalms 2 verses
- Psalms 110:3 טַ֣ל n c ms cs Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
- Psalms 133:3 כְּ/טַל prep + n c ms cs Like the dew of Hermon, That comes down on the hills of Zion: For there Yahweh gives the blessing, Even life forevermore.
Proverbs 2 verses
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 18:4 טַ֖ל n c ms For thus has Yahweh said to me, I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
- Isaiah 26:19 טַ֤ל טַלֶּ֔/ךָ n c ms cs n c ms cs + sfx pers 2ms Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
Hosea 3 verses
- Hosea 6:4 וְ/כַ/טַּ֖ל conj + prep det + n c ms "Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, And like the dew that disappears early.
- Hosea 13:3 וְ/כַ/טַּ֖ל conj + prep det + n c ms Therefore they will be like the morning cloud, And like the dew that passes away early, Like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, And like the smoke out of the chimney.
- Hosea 14:5 כַ/טַּל֙ prep det + n c ms I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, And send down his roots like Lebanon.
Micah 1 verse
Haggai 1 verse
Zechariah 1 verse
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.
טל (ṭal) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “dew.” It first appears in Genesis 27:28. It turns up in 30 verses across 16 books, a moderately common footprint. From the same root come טלל, טלל and טל. 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 H2919 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 →
- 30
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 30 distinct verses.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,120
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,120 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 30 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Judges 4 verses 13%
- Deuteronomy 3 verses 10%
- Hosea 3 verses 10%
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 30 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 15 verses · 50%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 27%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 7 verses · 23%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Dew 22×
- American Standard Version†: Dew 20×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Dew 24×, Is like the dew 2×, Like dew 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Dew 21×, Like the dew 3×, Dew of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2919 across 31† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2919 across 31† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2919 across 31† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2919 across 36† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- dew, night mist
Word origin
n.m. Ju 6:37 night-mist, dew (NH טַל dew; Aramaic ܛܰܠܴܐ, טַלָּא dew; Arabic طَلٌّ light rain, dew; Ethiopic ጠል dew)—ט׳ abs. 1 S 1:21 + 12 times; טָ֑ל Ju 6:13 + 9 times; cstr. טַל Gn 27:28 + 4 times; sf. טַלֶּ֑ךָ Is 26:19, טַלָּם Zc 8:12;—night-mist, taking place of our dew (v. Che Is 18:4 & ψ 110:3; Lane 1862, NeilPal. Explored 129); as coming from the sky and bringing fertility, טַל הַשָּׁמַיִם Gn 27:28 (God gives it, נתן), & v 39 (+ מֵעָ֑ל), cf. Dt 33:28 (heavens distil it, ערף), Hg 1:10 Zc 8:12 (heavens give it, נתן); in Dt 33:13 read perh. מֵעָ֑ל for מִטַּל (v. ‖ Gn 49:25 and Di); clouds distil it (רעף) Pr 3:20; sq. עַל, it descends (ירד) upon the camp Nu 11:9 (JE); it is upon the ground Ju 6:39, 40, cf. 2 S 1:21 (+ מָטָר); upon the fleece Ju 6:37; is wrung out (מוץ) of the fleece v 38; remains through the night (לון) Jb 29:19, cf. שִׁכְבַת הַטּ׳ the lying of dew = the dew lying Ex 16:13, 14 (P; it goes up (עלה) in morning); it is in drops מִי הוֹלִיד אֶגְלֵי טָ֑ל Jb 38:28; covers the head of one out at night Ct 5:2; it comes (היה) by word of prophet 1 K 17:1 (+ מָטָר); sim. of stealthy approach כַּאֲשֶׁר יִפֹּל הַטַּל עַל־הָאֲדָמָה 2 S 17:12; sim. denoting welcome and gentle refreshment, of speech, which distils (נזל) like it Dt 32:2 (poem; ‖ שְׂעִירִים, רְבִיבִים); of fraternal unity כְּטַל חֶרְמוֹן ψ 133:3 (ירד על); of king’s favour Pr 19:12 (על); of י׳’s kindness Ho 14:6; כְּעָב טַל Is 18:4 like a mist-cloud, of י׳’s quiet watching; of Jacob’s influence among nations Mi 5:6 (ט׳ מֵאֵת י׳; ‖ רְבִיבִים); טַל אוֹרֹת טַלָּ֑ךָ Is 26:19 a dew of light is thy dew (v i. אוֹרָה p. 21b supr. and BaudStud. Sem. Rel. ii. 264 f.); as transitory, כַּטַּל מַשְׁכִּים הֹלֵךְ Ho 6:4 like the dew early departing, so 13:3 (both ‖ עֲנַן־בֹּקֶר); fig. of young warriors of king established by י׳, with flashing weapons, like dewdrops טַל יַלְדֻתֶ֑ךָ ψ 110:3.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from טלל (ṭâlal) (H2926) — to roof.
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.
טַל
- [hanging drop, cmp. טִלְטוּלַיָּא,] dew. Taan. 3ᵃ בטל וברוחות וכ׳ as to mentioning dew and winds in the prayer &c.—Ib. 3ᵇ טל דברכה a fructifying dew; a. fr.—Pl. טְלָלִים, טְלָלֵין. Ḥag. 12ᵇ עליית ט׳ the upper chamber (store) of dews, v. אֲגָלִים. Lev. R. s. 28 ט׳ קשים injurious dews; a. fr.
טַל ²
- Targ. Is. XVIII, 4. Targ. O. Gen. XXVII, 28; a. fr.—Pl. טַלִּין. Targ. Y. Gen. l. c.; a. e.
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 26 distinct written forms H2919 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2919, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 30 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 30 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
- Genesis 27:28
- Exodus 16:13
- Numbers 11:9
- Deuteronomy 32:2
- Judges 6:37
- 2 Samuel 1:21
- 1 Kings 17:1
- Job 29:19
- Psalms 110:3
- Proverbs 3:20
- Song of Solomon 5:2
- Isaiah 18:4
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.
