melal (to speak) · Rightly

Meaning

(Pael) to speak, say

How it's translated

speaking 3
he spoke 1
he will speak 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 5

1 book in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 7:8In contextI considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Daniel 7:11In contextI beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
Daniel 7:20In contextAnd of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
Daniel 7:25In contextAnd he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Aramaic dictionary

מְלַל melal · to speak

(Pael) to speak, say Aramaic of ma.lal (מָלַל "to speak" H4448A)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “speak” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SPEAK, verb intransitive

preterit tense spoke, [spake, nearly, obsolete ] participle passive spoke, spoken. It is easy to see that the root of this word is allied to that of beak peak, pick.]

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts bywords.
To utter a speech, discourse or harangue; to utter thoughts in a public assembly.
To talk; to express opinions; to dispute.
To discourse; to make mention of.

All definitions and other forms of “speak”

To give sound.

SPEAK, verb transitive

To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately; as human beings. Job 2:10 Matthew 8:8
To declare; to proclaim; to celebrate.
To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation.
To address; to accost.
To exhibit; to make known.
To express silently or by signs.
To communicate; as, to speak peace to the soul.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.