H8534

תַּלְתַּלִּים

tal.talH:N-F

lock

1) wavy, branchy (used of woman's hair-fig) 1a) meaning uncertain

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

תַּלְתַּלִּים noun feminine (?) plural as figurative of woman's locks, meaning dubious: שְׁחרוֺת כָּעורֵב ׳קְוֻצּוֺתָיו ת Song 5:11 Thes (from above √) waving palm-branches, ᵐ5 ἐλάται; Late Hebrew once, figurative, LevyNHWB iv. 649 high hills compare JastrDict 1674 heaps, piles; but MagnusHohes Lied and JacobStud. Arab Dichter iv. 21 envelope or sheath of spadix of date-palm (with which hair often compare in Arabic poetry JacobIb. iii. 46 f, compare Arabic drinking vessel made of this envelope Lane); so perhaps Assyrian taltallu DlHWB 708.


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