Fold
מִכְלָהStrong’s H4356mikhlaah (mikh-la-ah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mikhlaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “from folds your”, “from folds of” and “from fold”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.”
Meaning
- Fold, enclosure
How it's translated
- from folds your 1
- from folds of 1
- from fold 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Habakkuk 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 78:70He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
- Habakkuk 3:17Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Hebrew dictionary
מִכְלָה mikhlaah · fold
fold, enclosure
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fold” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOLD, noun
[See the verb, to fold ]
- A pen or inclosure for sheep; a place where a flock of sheep is kept, whether in the field or under shelter.
- A flock of sheep.“Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold” John 10:16
- A limit. [Not in use.]
All definitions and other forms of “fold”
FOLD, noun
- The doubling of any flexible substance, as cloth; complication; a plait; one part turned or bent and laid on another; as a fold of linen.
- In composition, the same quantity added; as two fold four fold ten fold that is, twice as much, four times as much, ten times as much.
FOLD, verb transitive
[Heb. The primary sense is to fall, or to lay, to set, throw or press together.]
- To double; to lap or lay in plaits; as, to fold a piece of cloth.
- To double and insert one part in another; as, to fold a letter.
- To double or lay together, as the arms.
- To confine sheep in a fold
FOLD, verb intransitive
To close over another of the same kind; as, the leaves of the door fold
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.