talah (to hang) · Rightly

Meaning

To hang(Qal) · (Niphal) to be hanged · (Piel) to hang, hang up (for display)

How it's translated

he hanged 3
and they hanged 2
to hang 2
they hung up 2
and he will hang 1
and you will hang 1
is hanged 1
and he hanged them 1

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

Where it's used most

Esther 9
Genesis 3
Ezekiel 3
Deuteronomy 2
Joshua 2
2 Samuel 2

11 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Genesis 40:22But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
Genesis 41:13And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
Deuteronomy 21:22And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
Deuteronomy 21:23His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Joshua 8:29And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
Joshua 10:26And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

All 26 verses, by book

Genesis 3: 40:19 40:22 41:13
Deuteronomy 2: 21:22 21:23
Joshua 2: 8:29 10:26
2 Samuel 2: 4:12 18:10
Esther 9: 2:23 5:14 6:4 7:9 7:10 8:7 9:13 9:14 9:25
Job 1: 26:7
Psalms 1: 137:2
Song of Solomon 1: 4:4
Isaiah 1: 22:24
Lamentations 1: 5:12
Ezekiel 3: 15:3 27:10 27:11

Hebrew dictionary

תָּלָה talah · to hang

1) to hang 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to hang 1a1a) to hang up (any object) 1a1b) to put to death by hanging 1b) (Niphal) to be hanged 1c) (Piel) to hang, hang up (for display)

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.