Scroll
מְגִלָּהStrong’s H4040megillah (me-gil-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Megillah is the Aramaic word usually translated “scroll”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:”
Meaning
- Scroll, roll, book
How it's translated
- a scroll 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Aramaic dictionary
מְגִלָּה megillah · scroll
scroll, roll, book Aramaic of me.gil.lah (מְגִלָּה "scroll" H4039)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.