STRONGS NUMBER H4606


Word Summary
meal: a going in
Original Word: מֵעָל
Transliteration: meal
Phonetic Spelling: (may-awl')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a going in
Meaning: the setting
Strong's Concordance
going down

(Aramaic) from alal; (only in plural as singular) the setting (of the sun) -- going down.

see HEBREW alal

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4606. meal

[מֶעָל‎] noun [masculine] going in (Syriac, ᵑ7J; ᵑ7Onk, etc., מַעֲלָנָא‎); — plural construct שִׁמְשָׁא מֶעָלֵיDaniel 6:15 i.e. sunset (so read NöGGA, 1884, 1020 Str M Bev, compare Syriac , ; > van d. H. Gi מֵעָלֵי‎, Baer מַעֲלֵי‎; compare K§, Beisp. b)).