טָלֶה
lamb
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 1 time (50%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2924 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 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.
1 Samuel 1 verse
Isaiah 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.
At its core, טלה (ṭâleh) means “lamb.” With only 2 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. The word gravitates to 1 Samuel (50%), then Isaiah. First canonically at 1 Samuel 7:9, it enters the text early. It shares a root with טלא and טלאים. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2924 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.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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: Lamb 2×
- American Standard Version: Lamb 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Lamb 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Lamb 1×, Lamb of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2924 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2924 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2924 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2924 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- lamb
Word origin
n.m. 1 S 7:9 lamb (NH id., lamb;) Aramaic טַלְיָא lamb, youth, טַלְיְתָא girl, ܛܰܠܝܳܐ boy, youth, ܛܠܻܝܬܳܐ girl (cf. Mk 5:41 𝔖); Arabic طَلًا young of cloven-footed animals, especially young gazelle HomNS 235, Nedj. tully, male lamb, DoughtyArabic Desert. i. 429, ii. 269; Ethiopic ጠሊ flock of goats, goat, kid—טְלֵה חָלָב 1 S 7:9 sucking lamb (for burnt-offering); in prediction זְאֵב וְטָלֶה יִרְעוּ Is 65:25 wolf & lamb shall feed; טְלָאִים pl. of foregoing, only Is 40:11 in metaph. of י׳ shepherding his people.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from טלא (ṭᵉlâʼ) (H2922) — lamb.
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.
טָלֶה
- [tender,] lamb. Ḥag. 9ᵇ בקרו ט׳ examine the lamb, v. בָּקַר; a. e.—Pl. טְלָאִים, טְלָיִים. Y. Ber. IV, 7ᵇ top ט׳ מבוקרים, v. בָּקַר. Ib.; Tam. III, 3 לשכת הט׳ the (Temple) store for daily offerings; a. e.
טָלֵה
- m. = טָלֵי. Targ. Y. Gen. XXXVII, 2 (ed. Amst. טלח, corr. acc.)
טלי
- to hang on, to patch, line. Kel. XXVI, 2 טלא עליו וכ׳ Ar. (Mish. ed. טלה, Talm. ed. טִילָּה), v. מַטְלִית. Ib. XXVII, 6 שטְלָיָיהּ וכ׳ which he put on &c. Y. Meg. I, 71ᵈ top וטוֹלִין, v. מַטְלִית. Ḥull. 122ᵇ שטְלָאָהּ לקופתו which he hanged over his basket. Gitt. 45ᵇ ט׳ עליהן עור covered them with a leather casing.
- same, v. supra. Part. pass. מְטוּלָּא, pl. מְטוּלָּאִים. Ber. 43ᵇ, a. fr. מנעלים המט׳ patched shoes; v. טְלָאי.
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 2 distinct written forms H2924 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.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/טָלֶ֜ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 65:25 | 1 |
| טְלֵ֤ה | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 1 Samuel 7:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2924, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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.
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