מִלָּה millah

Hebrew word for “speech” · Strong’s H4405 · used 38 times in 38 verses

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Meaning

word, speech, utterance; Aramaic equivalent: mil.lah (מִלָּה "word" H4406)

How it is translated

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

• words 31
• speech 5
• word 2

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Job 32 (4), Job 33 (3), Job 34 (3), Job 4 (2), Job 15 (2), Job 19 (2), Job 29 (2), Job 35 (2), Job 36 (2), 2 Samuel 23 (1)

Forms

• מלין 10
• מלים 6
• מלי 5
• מלתי 4
• במלים 3
• במלין 2
• מליך 2
• ומלתו 1
• ומלים 1
• למלין 1

Words used with it

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

• אָזַן azan “to listen” 4
• אֹזֶן ozen “ear” 5
• מִי mi “who?” 5
• שָׁמַע shama “to hear” 6
• רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 4
• טָעַם taam “to perceive” 2
• דָבַר davar “to speak” 5
• שׂוּם sum “to set” 4
• אֵפוֹ epho “then” 2
• דָּבָר davar “word” 5
• חֵךְ chekh “palate” 2
• בָּחַן bachan “to test” 2

Key verses

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

• 2 Samuel 23:2 — The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
• Job 6:26 — Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
• Job 16:4 — I also could speak as ye if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
• Job 18:2 — How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
• Job 19:2 — How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
• Job 21:2 — Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
• Job 32:18 — For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.
• Job 36:4 — For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
• Job 38:2 — Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
• Psalms 19:4 — Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
• Psalms 139:4 — For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
• Proverbs 23:9 — Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

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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.