To hang
תָּלָאStrong’s H8511tala (ta-la)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tala is the Hebrew word usually translated “hung up” and “had hung up them”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:”
Meaning
- (Qal) to hang, hang to, cling to
How it's translated
- hung up 2
- they had hung up them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Hosea 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 21:12And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
- Hosea 11:7And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
Hebrew dictionary
תָּלָא tala · to hang
(Qal) to hang, hang to, cling to
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hang” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HANG, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive hanged or hung.
- To suspend; to fasten to some fixed object above, in such a manner as to swing or move; as, to hang a thief.
- To put to death by suspending by the neck.
- To place without any solid support or foundation.“He hangeth the earth upon nothing” Job 26:7
- To fix in such a manner as to be movable; as, to hang a door or grate on hooks or by butts.
All definitions and other forms of “hang”
- To cover or furnish by any thing suspended or fastened to the walls; as, to hang an apartment with curtains or with pictures.
- To hang abroad; to suspend in the open air.
- To suspend; to keep or suffer to remain undecided; as, to hang up a question in debate.
HANG, verb intransitive
To be suspended; to be sustained by something above, so as to swing or be movable below.
- To dangle; to be loose and flowing below.
- To bend forward or downward; to lean or incline.
- To float; to play.
- To be supported by something raised above the ground; as a hanging garden on the top of a house.
- To depend; to rest on something for support.
- To rest on by embracing; to cling to; as, to hang on the neck of a person.
- To hover; to impend; with over.
- To be delayed; to linger.
- To incline; to have a steep declivity; as hanging grounds.
- To be executed by the halter.
- To adhere obstinately; to be importunate.
- To rest; to reside; to continue.
- To be dependent on.
- In seamen's language, to hold fast without belaying; to pull forcibly.“Thy life shall hang in doubt before thee” Deuteronomy 28:66
- To be just united, so as barely to hold together.
HANG, noun
A sharp declivity.
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.