Scroll
מְגִלָּהStrong’s H4039megillah (me-gil-lah)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Megillah is the Hebrew word usually translated “scroll” and “scroll of”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.”
Meaning
- Roll, book, writing
How it's translated
- the scroll 12
- a scroll 4
- a scroll of 3
- in scroll of 1
- in the scroll 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 12
- Ezekiel 4
- Zechariah 2
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 5:2In contextAnd he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
- Psalms 40:7Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
- Jeremiah 36:2Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
- Jeremiah 36:4Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
- Jeremiah 36:6Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD’s house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
- Jeremiah 36:14Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
Hebrew dictionary
מְגִלָּה megillah · scroll
roll, book, writing Aramaic equivalent: me.gil.lah (מְגִלָּה "scroll" H4040)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scroll” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCROLL, noun
[probably formed from roll, or its root.]
- “The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll” Isaiah 34:4
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.