dalal · be brought low

What it means

dalal (דָּלַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be brought low”.

Become weak, be impoverished, be brought low.

How to say it

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

1. To hang in the air without support, swinging.
2. To grow feeble or poor; shrink.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• I am brought very low ×1
• I was brought low ×1
• grew weak ×1
• hang limp ×1
• they hang ×1
• was brought very low ×1
• we have been brought low ×1
• will be made small ×1
• will dwindle ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3

• Judges 6:6

  Israel was brought very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel cried out to YHWH.

• Job 28:4

  He breaks open a shaft far from where people live; forgotten by the foot, they hang far from mortals, they sway.

• Psalms 79:8

  Do not remember against us the iniquities of the ancestors; quickly let your compassion come to meet us, for we have been brought low greatly.

• Psalms 116:6

  YHWH keeps the simple; I was brought low, and he saved me.

• Psalms 142:6

  Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my pursuers, for they are stronger than I.

• Proverbs 26:7

  The legs of the lame hang limp; so is a proverb in the mouth of the senseless.

• Isaiah 17:4

  And it will happen, on that day, the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the fatness of his flesh will grow lean.

• Isaiah 19:6

  And the rivers will stink; the canals of Egypt will dwindle and dry up; reed and rush will wither.

• Isaiah 38:14

  Like a swallow, like a crane, so I chirped; I moaned like the dove; my eyes grew weak looking on high. Adonai, oppression is on me; be surety for me.