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HebrewH4039Noun (Feminine)

מְגִלָּה

me.gil.lah

18Occurrences
H4039Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a roll

from H1556 (גָּלַל);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
roll, book, writing Aramaic equivalent: me.gil.lah (*מְגִלָּה *"scroll" H4040)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

מְגִלָּה appears 18 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
12
Ezk
4
Zechariah
2

Key Passages

Ezk 2:9BSB

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Ezk 3:3BSB

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Jeremiah 36:6BSB

so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities.

Jeremiah 36:21BSB

Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing beside him.

Jeremiah 36:27BSB

After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.