H8518 תָּלָה (tâlâh) taw-law'

Hebrew

Verb (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

to hang

Strong's Definition

to suspend (especially to gibbet)

Derivation: a primitive root;

KJV Usage: hang (up).

TWOT Reference: 2512

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) 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)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2910 G4717

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

תָּלָה (ta.lah) — to hang. 1) 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)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

תלה (H8518)

verb · תְּלִי · יִתְלָה

Hang | verb qal ptc.pass

hung, hanging = state in which an object is suspended to another object in a way that it can swing freely

2SA 18:10 · SNG 4:4

Hang | verb qal, verb pi, verb nif

to hang = causative action by which humans suspend objects to another object in a way that it can swing freely

GEN 40:19 · GEN 40:22 · GEN 41:13 · DEU 21:22 · DEU 21:23 · JOS 8:29 · JOS 10:26 · JOS 10:26 · 2SA 4:12 · EST 2:23 · EST 5:14 · EST 6:4 · EST 7:9 · EST 7:10 · EST 8:7 · EST 9:13 · EST 9:14 · EST 9:25 · JOB 26:7 · PSA 137:2 · ISA 22:24 · LAM 5:12 · EZK 15:3 · EZK 27:10 · EZK 27:11

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

תָּלָה vb. hang Qal hang

Niph. princes have been hung up by their hands

Pi. hang up for display

base

Bible Occurrences (26)

40:19 40:22 41:13

21:22 21:23

8:29 10:26

4:12 18:10 21:12

2:23 5:14 6:4 7:9 7:10 8:7 9:13 9:14 9:25

26:7

137:2

22:24

5:12

15:3 27:10 27:11

Genesis 40:19

Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head... and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.

Genesis 40:22

But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them {in his interpretation}.

Genesis 41:13

And it happened to us just as he had interpreted:...... I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.

Deuteronomy 21:22

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

Deuteronomy 21:23

you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury... him that day, because anyone who is hung [on a tree] is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Joshua 8:29

He hung the king of Ai on a tree until... evening, and at sunset... Joshua commanded that they take down the body... from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.

Joshua 10:26

After this, Joshua struck down and killed [the kings], and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them... there... until evening.

2 Samuel 4:12

So David commanded his young men, and they killed [Rechab and Baanah]. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.