Ravine
מְצֻלָהStrong’s H4699metsullah (me-tsul-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Metsullah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hollow”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.”
Meaning
- Ravine, basin, hollowapparently a place near Jerusalem
How it's translated
- in the hollow 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Zechariah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מְצֻלָה metsullah · ravine
1) ravine, basin, hollow 1a) apparently a place near Jerusalem
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ravine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RAV'INE, noun
A long deep hollow worn by a stream or torrent of water; hence, any long deep hollow or pass through mountains, etc.
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.