תָּלָה talah
Hebrew word for “to hang” · Strong’s H8518 · used 27 times in 26 verses
Meaning
1) to hang; 1a) (Qal);
How it is translated
Glosses given for talah in context, with how often each is used:
- hanged 8
- hung up 4
- will hang 3
- hang 3
- one who is hanged 1
- people may hang 1
- have hanged 1
- them hang 1
- people hanged 1
- people will hang 1
- hangs 1
- hung 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Esther | 9 | 3.0 | |
| Genesis | 3 | 0.1 | |
| Joshua | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Ezekiel | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Deuteronomy | 2 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Samuel | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Song of Solomon | 1 | 0.8 | |
| Isaiah | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Lamentations | 1 | 0.6 |
Chapters where it is used most
Esther 9 (3), Genesis 40 (2), Deuteronomy 21 (2), Esther 7 (2), Ezekiel 27 (2), Genesis 41 (1), Joshua 8 (1), Joshua 10 (1), 2 Samuel 4 (1), 2 Samuel 18 (1)
Forms
- תלה 4
- ויתלו 4
- תלו 4
- תלוי 3
- לתלות 2
- ותלו 2
- ותלה 1
- ותלית 1
- ויתלם 1
- תלוים 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with talah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- עֵץ ets “tree” 14
- הָמָן haman “Haman” 7
- מׇרְדֳּכַי mordekhay “Mordecai” 5
- יְהוּדִי yehudi “Jew” 3
- פָּתַר patar “to interpret” 2
- שֶׁלֶט shelet “shield” 2
- שׁוּשַׁן shushan “Susa” 2
- דָּת dat “law” 2
- גָּבֹהַּ gavoah “high” 2
- נְבֵלָה nevelah “carcass” 2
- מִגְדָּל migdal “tower” 2
- אֶסְתֵּר ester “Esther” 2
Key verses
The verses using talah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 40:19 — Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
- Deuteronomy 21:22 — And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
- Deuteronomy 21:23 — His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be…
- Joshua 8:29 — And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree,…
- Joshua 10:26 — And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
- Esther 5:14 — Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be…
- Esther 7:9 — And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good…
- Esther 7:10 — So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
- Esther 9:25 — But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and…
- Job 26:7 — He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
- Lamentations 5:12 — Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
- Ezekiel 27:10 — They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
See all 26 verses in the Word Atlas
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.