טַל tal

Hebrew word for “dew” · Strong’s H2919 · used 31 times in 30 verses

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Meaning

dew, night mist; Aramaic equivalent: tal (טַל "dew" H2920)

How it is translated

Glosses given for tal in context, with how often each is used:

• dew 21
• like dew 4
• like the dew 3
• some of the dew 1
• away from the dew 1
• will be the dew 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 6 (4), Genesis 27 (2), Exodus 16 (2), Deuteronomy 33 (2), Numbers 11 (1), Deuteronomy 32 (1), 2 Samuel 1 (1), 2 Samuel 17 (1), 1 Kings 17 (1), Job 29 (1)

Forms

• טל 13
• הטל 4
• כטל 4
• מטל 3
• וכטל 3
• ומטל 1
• וטל 1
• טלך 1
• טלם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with tal more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• גִּזָּה gazzah “fleece” 4
• מָטַר matar “rain” 4
• שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 6
• חֹרֶב chorev “drought” 3
• עֵשֶׂב esev “vegetation” 3
• עָרַף araph “to drop” 2
• שָׁכַם shakham “to rise” 3
• רְבִיבִים raviv “shower” 2
• מִשְׁמָן mishman “fatness” 2
• שְׁכָבָה shekhavah “semen” 2
• יְבוּל yevul “crops” 2
• בַּד bad “alone” 3

Key verses

The verses using tal that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 27:28 — Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
• Deuteronomy 32:2 — My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
• 1 Kings 17:1 — And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew…
• Psalms 110:3 — Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
• Psalms 133:3 — As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
• Proverbs 19:12 — The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
• Song of Solomon 5:2 — I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled…
• Isaiah 26:19 — Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth…
• Hosea 6:4 — O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
• Hosea 14:5 — I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
• Micah 5:7 — And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for…
• Zechariah 8:12 — For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.