טָלַל
to roof
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Stem
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2926 appears — 1 distinct verse 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.
Nehemiah 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.
“to roof” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb טלל (ṭâlal). It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. It clusters heavily in Nehemiah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Found nowhere else but Nehemiah 3:15. It clusters with טל and טלל under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2926 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 1 verse 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 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Covered 1×
- American Standard Version: It 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Roofed it 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Covering it 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2926 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2926 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2926 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2926 across 1 tagged occurrence — 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.
- (Piel) to cover with a roof, cover over, roof
Word origin
[ טָלַל ] vb. cover over, roof —only Pi. Ne 3:15
— 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.
טְלָל
- , pl. טְלָלִים, v. טַל.
טָלַל
- 1. to hang over, (of liquids) to form drops; v. טַל.—Part. pass. טָלוּל, f. טְלוּלָה a) hanging. Y. Ab. Zar. IV, 44ᵃ bot. [read:] שלא היתה שם טיפה אחת ט׳ that there should not have been there (in the vat) one drop hanging (which drops down on being touched or shaken). b) (with שנה, denom. of טַל) blessed with dew. Taan. 24ᵇ; Y. Yoma V, 42ᶜ top.; Lev. R. s. 20; Tanḥ. Aḥăre 3; ed. Bub. ib. 4, v. גָּשַׁם.
- 2. to be movable, v. טִלְטֵל.
- 3. to cover, v. טַלִּית.
טְלַל I
- , Pa. טַלֵּיל to make a טְלָלָא; to cover, screen. Targ. I Kings VI, 9 (h. text ספן). Targ. Y. Ex. XL, 21 (O. Af; h. text ויסך). Ib. XXV, 20 מְטַלְלִין (O. מַטְּלִין); a. fr.—Succ. 31ᵃ (a beam) דגזלה ומְטַלֵּל עלה Ms. M. (ed. דגזולה only) which one stole and put upon it the covering of the Succah, v. מְטַלַּלְתָּא.—Part. pass. מְטַלַּל, f. מְטַלְּלָא. B. Kam. 50ᵇ משום דמט׳ because the cave is roofed. Ib. דלא מְטַלְּלֵי which are uncovered.—Trnsf. to obscure. Sabb. 78ᵃ מסו ומְטַלְּלֵי they heal (the eye-sore) but dim the eye-sight.
- 1. same, same, to cover, v. supra. Targ. Is. IV, 5, sq., v. supra. Targ. Is. IV, 5, sq.; a. fr.
- 2. to find shelter. Dan. IV, 9. e.g. Daniel 4:9
- to be covered. Targ. Ps. LXVIII, 14 מִיטַּ׳ (some ed. מְט׳, v. supra). Targ. I Chr. II, 55.
טְלַל II
- (v. טוּל I), Pa. טַלֵּיל, Af. אַטְלֵיל to play, sport, Succ. 53ᵃ לוי הוה מְטַלֵּל וכ׳ Ar. (ed. מְטַיֵּיל, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 200) L. was sporting … with eight knives. B. Bath. 91ᵇ נהירנא … מְטַלְּלִין וכ׳ Ar. (ed. מטיילין, Var. מְטַלִּין or מַטְּלִין, מְטַלְּיָין, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 40) I remember that boys and girls enjoyed themselves &c.
- same. Kidd. 21ᵇ אִיטְּלַלִיתוּ, v. איסְקוּנְדְּרֵי
טְלַל III
- (טְלַל I)
- 1. (= h. צֵל) shade, shadow. Targ. Koh. VIII, 13 (some ed. טול). Ib. VI, 12. Targ. Ps. XCI, 1; a. fr.
- 2. (cmp. סכך, סֻכָּה, מָסָךְ) cover of twigs, reeds &c.; in gen. ceiling, cover, screen. Targ. Ps. XXVII, 5; a. fr.—Ber. 19ᵃ נפל קניא מט׳ (Ms. M. משמי ט׳) a reed fell down from the ceiling. Ib. 48ᵃ אחוי לשמי ט׳ pointed up to the ceiling. B. Kam. 66ᵇ מעיקרא כשורא והשתא ט׳ formerly it was named beam, now ceiling, v. מָרֵישׁ.—Pl. טְלָלַיָּא. Targ. Job XL, 21, sq. (h. text צאלים).
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.
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