H1803B

דַּלָּה

dal.lahH:N-F

poor

1) poor (usually coll of helpless people) 2)(TWOT) poorest, lowest

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

I. דַּלָּה noun feminine collective, hair, thrum (both front hanging down) — דַּלָּה Isa 38:12 construct דַּלַּת Song 7:6 — hair, ראשׁך ׳ד Song 7:6 thrum (threads of warp hanging in loom) in simile of premature death מִדַּלָּה יְבַצְּעֵנִי Isa 38:12.



II. [דַּלָּה] noun feminine the poor — construct דַּלַּת Jer 40:7 + 2 t.; plural דַּלּוֺת Jer 52:15; Jer 52:16 — the poor (collective, weak, helpless ones) Jer 40:7; 2Kgs 24:14; 2Kgs 25:12 (in || Jer 52:16, as also vJer 52:15, ᵑ0 has strangely the plural)


6 occurrences

Genesis (1), II Kings (2), Jeremiah (3)