Hole
מְחִלָּהStrong’s H4247mechillah (me-chil-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Mechillah is the Hebrew word usually translated “holes of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.”
Meaning
- Hole, cavern
How it's translated
- and in holes of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מְחִלָּה mechillah · hole
hole, cavern
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hole” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HOLE, noun
- A hollow place or cavity in any solid body, of any shape or dimensions, natural or artificial. Isaiah 11:8Ezekiel 8:7
- A perforation; an aperture; an opening in or through a solid body, left in the work or made by an instrument.“Jehoida took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it” 2 Kings 12:9
- A mean habitation; a narrow or dark lodging.
- An opening or means of escape; a subterfuge; in the vulgar phrase, he has a hole to creep out at.
All definitions and other forms of “hole”
- An opening in a garment for the arm.
HOLE, verb intransitive
To go into a hole
HOLE, verb transitive
To cut, dig or make a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
- To drive into a bag, as in billiards.
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.