King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H1803
Transliteration: dallah
Phonetic Spelling: (dal-law')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: hair, thrum
Meaning: something dangling, a loose thread, hair, indigent
Word Summary
dallah: hair, thrum
Original Word: דַּלָּהTransliteration: dallah
Phonetic Spelling: (dal-law')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: hair, thrum
Meaning: something dangling, a loose thread, hair, indigent
Strong's Concordance
hair, pining sickness, poorest sort From dalah; properly, something dangling, i.e. A loose thread or hair; figuratively, indigent -- hair, pining sickness, poor(-est sort).
see HEBREW dalah
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H1803. dallah
I. דַּלָּה noun feminine collective, hair, thrum (both front hanging down) — דַּלָּה Isaiah 38:12; construct דַּלַּת Cant 7:6; — hair, ׳ד ראשׁך Cant 7:6; thrum (threads of warp hanging in loom) in simile of premature death יְבַצְּעֵנִי מִדַּלָּה 38:12.
II. [דַּלָּה] noun feminine the poor — construct דַּלַּת Jeremiah 40:7 2t.; plural דַּלּוֺת 52:15-16, — the poor (collective, weak, helpless ones) 40:7; 2 Kings 24:14; 25:12 (in "" Jeremiah 52:16, as also 52:15, ᵑ0 has strangely the plural)