מְגִלָּה
scroll
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
- 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.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4040 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.
Ezra 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.
מגלה (mᵉgillâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “scroll.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. It clusters heavily in Ezra, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Ezra 6:2. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4040 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
- Ezra 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
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: Roll 1×
- American Standard Version: Roll 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Scroll 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Scroll 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4040 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4040 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4040 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4040 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.
- scroll, roll, book
Word origin
n.f. roll (writing, book; late)—מ׳ Je 36:28 + 16 times; cstr. מְגִלַּת־ ψ 40:8 + 3 times;—roll of writing, book מְגִלַּת־סֵפֶר Je 36:2, 4 Ez 2:9 ψ 40:8; מ׳ alone Je 36:6, 14(×2), 20, 21, 23, 25, 27, 28(×2), 29, 32 Ez 3:1, 2, 3 Zc 5:1, 2.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מגלה (mᵉgillâh) (H4039) — scroll.
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.
מְגִלָּה
- roll, scroll, volume, part of a סֵפֶר. Treat. Sof’rim V, 9 אין עושין שמע (או)הלל מ׳ וכ׳ you must not prepare the section of Sh’ma or of Hallel as a special volume for children; Gitt. 60ᵃ מהו לכתוב מ׳ וכ׳, v. לָמַד; Yoma 37ᵇ. Gitt. l. c. תורה מ׳ מ׳ ניתנה the Pentateuch was published in sections, opp. חתומה. Deut. R. s. 8 תחלה קורא במ׳ when beginning, the student reads (the Pentateuch) in a detached scroll, opp. בספר.—Y. Shek. V, 49ᵃ; Yoma 38ᵃ; Cant. R. to III, 6 מְגִלַּת ס(מ)מנין a volume containing prescriptions for frankincense; a. fr.—מ׳ יוחסין, מ׳ סתרים מגלת אסתר, &c., v. respect. determinants.—Pl. מְגִלּוֹת, מְגִילּוֹת. Cant. R. l. c. היו מוסרין מְגִילּוֹתָם וכ׳ they handed over their rolls (containing the prescriptions) one to the other; (Y. Shek. l. c. את המגלה הזאת).—Esp. (הַ)מְּגִלָּה = מגלת אסתר, a. אֶסְתֵּר. Meg. I, 1. Ib. 19ᵃ מ׳ נקראת ספר the book of Esther is called a book and also a letter. Ib., sq. הקורא במ׳ הכתובה בין וכ׳ he who recites from a Book of Esther as written among the Hagiographa (instead of using a special scroll); a. v. fr.—M’gillah, name of a treatise of the Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud Babli a. Y’rushalmi, treating chiefly of the Festival of Purim.—M’gilloth, the five books: Esther, Ruth, Canticum, Lamentations and Koheleth.
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.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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