H1803

דלה

דלה

dalah

Collective feminine noun · From דלה (H1802)

From H1802; properly, something dangling, i.e. a loose thread or hair; figuratively, indigent:—hair, pining sickness, poor(-est sort).

Outline

hair, threads, thrum (threads of warp hanging in loom)
poor (usually coll of helpless people)
(TWOT) poorest, lowest

Usages

Genesis 41:19

And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

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2 Kings 24:14

And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

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2 Kings 25:12

But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

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Song of Solomon 7:5

Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

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Isaiah 38:12

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

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Jeremiah 40:7

¶ Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;

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Jeremiah 52:15

Then Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

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Jeremiah 52:16

But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

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