Speech
מִלָּהStrong’s H4405millah (mil-lah)
Appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Millah is the Hebrew word usually translated “words”, “words my” and “speech my”. It appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament.
“The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.”
Meaning
- Word, speech, utterance
How it's translated
- words 19
- words my 5
- speech my 4
- words your 2
- a word 2
- and speech his 1
- and words 1
- of words 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 34
- Psalms 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Proverbs 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 4:2If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
- Job 4:4Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
- Job 6:26Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
- Job 8:10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
- Job 12:11Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
- Job 13:17Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Hebrew dictionary
מִלָּה millah · speech
word, speech, utterance Aramaic equivalent: mil.lah (מִלָּה "word" H4406)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “speech” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SPEECH, noun
- The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words, as in human beings; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds. speech was given to man by his Creator for the noblest purposes.
- Language; words as expressing ideas.
- A particular language, as distinct form others. Psalms 19:2
- That which is spoken; words uttered in connection and expressing thoughts.
All definitions and other forms of “speech”
- Talk; mention; common saying.
- Formal discourse in public; oration; harangue.
- Any declaration of thoughts.
SPEECH, verb intransitive
To make a speech; to harangue. [Little used.]
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.