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Strong's #1803 - דַּלָּה
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- hair, threads, thrum (threads of warp hanging in loom)
- poor (usually coll of helpless people)
- 3)(TWOT) poorest, lowest
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1081) ld (דל DL) AC: Back and Forth CO: Door AB: ?: The pictograph d is a door. The l is a picture of staff and represents any rod. Combined these pictures mean "the door on the rod". The tent door was hung down as a curtain, covering the entrance to the tent, from a horizontal pole. The door was then moved to the side for going in and out of the tent. (eng: door - an exchange for the d and l)
A) ld (דל DL) AC: ? CO: Door AB: Poor: Any object that dangles such as a bucket that is hung from a rope down a well to retrieve water. The hair hangs from the head. A poor or weak person hangs the head in poverty.
Nm) ld (דל DL) - Weak: One who dangles the head in poverty or hunger. KJV (48): poor, needy, weak, lean - Strongs: H1800 (דַּל)
Nf1) eld (דלה DLH) - I. Poor:One who hangs head low in weakness. II. Hair:What hangs from the head and is easily blown by the wind. KJV (8): poor, pinning, sickness, hair - Strongs: H1803 (דַּלָּה)
Nf2) tld (דלת DLT) - Door: KJV (88): door, gate, leaves, lid - Strongs: H1817 (דֶּלֶת)
B) lld (דלל DLL) AC: Hang CO: ? AB: ?
V) lld (דלל DLL) - Brought low: To be brought down low such as the head in humility or a dried up river. KJV (9): (vf: Paal, Niphal) brought low, dried up, not equal, emptied, fail, impoverished, thin - Strongs: H1809 (דָּלַל)
H) eld (דלה DLH) AC: Lift CO: ? AB: ?: Anything that dangles down and swings back and forth, such as a branch, hair or door.
V) eld (דלה DLH) - Lift: The lifting of the bucket out of the well for drawing water. KJV (5): (vf: Paal, Piel) draw, enough, lifted - Strongs: H1802 (דָּלָה)
bf1) eild (דליה DLYH) - Branch: Dangles from a tree blowing back and forth in the wind. KJV (8): branch - Strongs: H1808 (דָּלִית)
fm) ild (דלי DLY) - Bucket: Dangles from a rope to draw water and lifted out of the well. KJV (2): bucket - Strongs: H1805 (דֳּלִי)
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Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
II. [דַּלָּה] noun feminine the poor — construct דַּלַּת Jeremiah 40:7 2t.; plural דַּלּוֺת Jeremiah 52:15,16; — the poor (collective, weak, helpless ones) Jeremiah 40:7; 2 Kings 24:14; 2 Kings 25:12 (in "" Jeremiah 52:16, as also Jeremiah 52:15, ᵑ0 has strangely the plural)
דַּלָּה f. (from דָּלַל), pr. something hanging down, slender, specially
(1) slender thread, specially the thrum by which the web is fastened to the weaver’s beam; Isaiah 38:12, מִדַּלָּה יְבַצְּעֵנִי “he has cut me off from the thrum,” an image of death, taken from a weaver who cuts off his finished work from the beam. (Ch. דְּלִיל the web).
(2) hair, locks hanging down, Song of Solomon 7:6 where the Vulg. has coma capitis.
(3) slenderness, poverty for the concr. the poor, 2 Kings 24:14, 25:12. Plur. דַּלּוֹת הָעָם Jeremiah 52:15, and ד׳ הָאָרֶץ verse 16 Jeremiah 52:16 id.
