Snow
תְּלַגStrong’s H8517telag (te-lag)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Telag is the Aramaic word usually translated “like snow”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.”
Meaning
- Snow
How it's translated
- like snow 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 1
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
תְּלַג telag · snow
snow Aramaic of she.leg (שֶׁ֫לֶג "snow" H7950)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “snow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SNOW, noun
[Latin nix, nivis; The Latin nivis, is contracted from nigis, like Eng. bow.]
- Frozen vapor; watery particles congealed into white crystals in the air, and falling to the earth.
- A vessel equipped with two masts, resembling the main and fore-masts of a ship, and a third small mast just abaft the mainmast, carrying a try-sail.
All definitions and other forms of “snow”
SNOW, verb intransitive
To fall in snow; as, it snows; it snowed yesterday.
SNOW, verb transitive
To scatter like snow
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.