Word
מִלָּהStrong’s H4406millah (mil-lah)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Millah is the Aramaic word usually translated “word the”, “matter the” and “matter of”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.”
Meaning
- Word, thingword, utterance, command · thing, affair, matter
How it's translated
- word the 6
- matter the 5
- matter of 2
- and matter the 2
- and a word 1
- a matter 1
- word of 1
- and word of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 22
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:8In contextThe king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
- Daniel 2:9In contextBut if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
- Daniel 2:10In contextThe Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.
- Daniel 2:11In contextAnd it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.
- Daniel 2:15In contextHe answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.
- Daniel 2:17In contextThen Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:
Aramaic dictionary
מִלָּה millah · word
1) word, thing 1a) word, utterance, command 1b) thing, affair, matter
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “word” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WORD, noun
[G., Latin, to speak. A word is that which is uttered or thrown out.]
- An articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language.
- The letter or letters, written or printed, which represent a sound or combination of sounds.
- A short discourse.
- Talk; discourse.
All definitions and other forms of “word”
- Dispute; verbal contention; as, some words grew between us.
- Language; living speech; oral expression.
- Promise.
- Signal; order; command.
- Account; tidings; message.
- Declaration; purpose expressed.
- Declaration; affirmation.
- The Scripture; divine revelation, or any part of it.
- Christ. John 1:1
- A motto; a short sentence; a proverb.“Let us not love in word only, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth” 1 John 3:18
WORD, verb intransitive
To dispute. [Little used.]
WORD, verb transitive
To express in words. Take care to word ideas with propriety.
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.