דָּלַח
dalach · muddy (water)
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1804 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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dalach (דָּלַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “muddy (water)”.
To stir up and muddy water.
How to say it
da·lach
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To foul water by stirring it.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- muddy them ×2
- muddied ×1
Where it appears
- Ezekiel 32:2
“Son of man, raise a dirge over Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, ‘A young lion of the nations you were compared to, and you are like the sea monster in the seas; and you burst forth in your rivers, and muddied the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.
- Ezekiel 32:13
And I will make all her livestock perish from beside many waters; and no human foot will muddy them any more, nor will the hooves of livestock muddy them.
And 1 more times.