Hair
דַּלָּהStrong’s H1803dallah (dal-lah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dallah is the Hebrew word usually translated “some of poor people of”, “weak” and “poor people of”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:”
Meaning
- Hair, threads, thrum (threads of warp hanging in loom)
- Poor (usually coll of helpless people)
- (TWOT) poorest, lowest
How it's translated
- and some of poor people of 4
- weak 1
- poor people of 1
- and hair of 1
- from loom 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- 2 Kings 2
- Genesis 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 24:14And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
- 2 Kings 25:12But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
- Song of Solomon 7:5Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
- Isaiah 38:12Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Jeremiah 40:7Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
- Jeremiah 52:15Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
Hebrew dictionary
דַּלָּה dallah · hair
hair, threads, thrum (threads of warp hanging in loom)
דַּלָּה dallah · poor
1) poor (usually coll of helpless people) 2)(TWOT) poorest, lowest
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hair” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HAIR, noun
- A small filament issuing from the skin of an animal, and from a bulbous root.
- The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming an integument or covering; as the hair of the head. hair is the common covering of many beasts.
- Any thing very small or fine; or a very small distance; the breadth of a hair He judges to a hair that is, very exactly.
- A trifling value.
All definitions
- Course; order; grain; the hair falling in a certain direction. [Not used.]
- Long, straight and distinct filaments on the surface of plants; a species of down or pubescence.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.