To spot
טָלָאStrong’s H2921tala (ta-la)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tala is the Hebrew word usually translated “spotted”, “patched” and “multicolored”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will pass through all thy flock to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.”
Meaning
- To patch, spot, be spotted, be coloured(Qal) · (Pual) to be patched
How it's translated
- and spotted 6
- and patched 1
- multicolored 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 4
- Joshua 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 30:33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
- Genesis 30:35And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
- Genesis 30:39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
- Joshua 9:5And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
- Ezekiel 16:16And of thy garments thou didst take, and deckedst thy high places with divers colours, and playedst the harlot thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
Hebrew dictionary
טָלָא tala · to spot
1) to patch, spot, be spotted, be coloured 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to spot 1a2) spotted (participle) 1b) (Pual) to be patched
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “spot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPOT, noun
[We see this word is of the family of spatter, and that the radical sense is to throw or thrust. A spot is made by spattering or sprinkling.
- A mark on a substance made by foreign matter; a speck; a blot; a place discolored.
- A stain on character or reputation; something that soils purity; disgrace; reproach; fault; blemish.
- A small extent of space; a place; any particular place.
- A place of a different color from the ground; as the spots of a leopard.
All definitions and other forms of “spot”
- A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above its beak.
- A dark place on the disk or face of the sun or of a planet.
- A lucid place in the heavens.
SPOT, verb transitive
- To make a visible mark with some foreign matter; to discolor; to stain; as, to spot a garment; to spot paper.
- To patch by way of ornament.
- To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish; as reputation.
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.