תָּלָה
ta.lah
“to hang”
Definition
to suspend (especially to gibbet)
a primitive root;
- to hang 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to hang 1a1a) to hang up (any object) 1a1b) to put to death by hanging 1b) (Niphal) to be hanged 1c) (Piel) to hang, hang up (for display)
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Grammar & Morphology
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Hebrew Verb
Occurrences
תָּלָה appears 26 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”
His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.”The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.
Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
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He stretches out the north over empty space;He hangs the earth upon nothing.
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