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מְגִלָּהStrong’s H4039

megillah (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.”
Zechariah 5:1 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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.]

  1. “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.