Byword
מְשֹׁלStrong’s H4914meshol (me-shol)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Meshol is the Hebrew word usually translated “use a proverb”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.”
Meaning
- Byword
How it's translated
- to use a proverb 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
מְשֹׁל meshol · byword
byword
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “byword” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BY'-WORD, noun
A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency.
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.