תְּלֻנָּה
murmuring
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.
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
Form
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 8 times (89%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H8519 appears — 7 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.
Exodus 4 verses
- Exodus 16:7 תְּלֻנֹּתֵי/כֶ֖ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of Yahweh; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?"
- Exodus 16:8 תְּלֻנֹּ֣תֵי/כֶ֔ם מַלִּינִ֖ם תְלֻנֹּתֵי/כֶ֖ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp Hiphil ptcp.act mp n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp Moses said, "Now Yahweh shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh."
- Exodus 16:9 תְּלֻנֹּתֵי/כֶֽם n c fp cs + sfx pers 2mp Moses said to Aaron, "Tell all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before Yahweh, for he has heard your murmurings.'"
- Exodus 16:12 תְּלוּנֹּת֮ n c fp cs "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.'"
Numbers 3 verses
- Numbers 14:27 תְּלֻנּ֞וֹת n c fp cs How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
- Numbers 17:5 תְּלֻנּוֹת֙ n c fp cs It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
- Numbers 17:10 תְּלוּנֹּתָ֛/ם n c fp cs + sfx pers 3mp Yahweh said to Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that you may make an end of their murmurings against me, that they not die.
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.
“murmuring” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun תלונה (tᵉlûwnâh). It clusters heavily in Exodus, which alone accounts for 57% of its uses. It turns up in 7 verses across 2 books, an uncommon footprint. First canonically at Exodus 16:7, it enters the text early. Translators differ — “murmurings” in the King James Version, then “grumbling” (Berean Standard Bible), as the renderings breakdown shows. See the sense tree, 7-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8519 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 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 7 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 7 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: Murmurings 8×
- American Standard Version: Murmurings 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Grumbling 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Murmurings 5×, Murmurings of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8519 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8519 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 H8519 across 8 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8519 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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.
- murmuring
Word origin
Derived from לון (lûwn) (H3885) — to lodge.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H8519 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַלִּינִ֖ם | Verb, Hiphil, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 16:8 | 1 |
| תְלֻנֹּתֵי/כֶ֖ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 16:8 | 1 |
| תְּלֻנּ֞וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 14:27 | 1 |
| תְּלֻנֹּ֣תֵי/כֶ֔ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 16:8 | 1 |
| תְּלֻנֹּתֵי/כֶ֖ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 16:7 | 1 |
| תְּלֻנֹּתֵי/כֶֽם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 16:9 | 1 |
| תְּלֻנּוֹת֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 17:5 | 1 |
| תְּלוּנֹּת֮ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 16:12 | 1 |
| תְּלוּנֹּתָ֛/ם | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 17:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8519, 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
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 → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 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 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 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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