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Howling

יְלֵלStrong’s H3214

yelel (ye-lel)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Yelel is the Hebrew word usually translated “howling of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.”
Deuteronomy 32:10 KJV
Meaning
  1. A howling (of beasts)
How it's translated
  • howling of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Deuteronomy 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    יְלֵל yelel · howling

    a howling (of beasts)

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “howling” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    HOWL'ING, participle present

    tense Uttering the cry of a dog or wolf; uttering a loud cry of distress.

      All definitions and other forms of “howling”

        HOWL'ING, adjective

        Filled with howls, or howling beasts; dreary.

          HOWL'ING, noun

          The act of howling; a loud outcry or mournful sound.

            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.