Dew
טַלStrong’s H2919tal
Appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tal is the Hebrew word usually translated “dew”, “like dew” and “like the dew”. It appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament.
“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 the remnant of this people to possess all these things.”
Meaning
- Dew, night mist
How it's translated
- dew 12
- the dew 3
- and like dew 3
- like the dew 2
- from dew 2
- dew of 2
- some of dew of 1
- and away from dew of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Hosea 3
- Genesis 2
- Exodus 2
- 2 Samuel 2
16 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 27:28Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
- Genesis 27:39And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
- Exodus 16:13And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
- Exodus 16:14And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
- Numbers 11:9And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.
- Deuteronomy 32:2My 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:
Hebrew dictionary
טַל tal · dew
dew, night mist Aramaic equivalent: tal (טַל "dew" H2920)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dew” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DEW, noun
[G. To thaw.]
The water or moisture collected or deposited on or near the surface of the earth, during the night, by the escape of the heat which held the water in solution.
All definitions and other forms of “dew”
DEW, verb intransitive
To wet with dew; to moisten.
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.