tala · hang

What it means

tala (תָּלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hang”.

Often, hang the body of an executed man in view of all.

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 leave something suspended from a wooden post or a tree, above all the body of an executed person.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hang ×9
• hanged them ×3
• he hanged ×3
• they hanged ×3
• hanging ×2
• they hung ×2
• he hangs ×1
• one who is hanged ×1
• they have hanged ×1
• we hung ×1
• others ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×3
• 2 Samuel×3
• Esther×9
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×3

• Genesis 40:19

  Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head from upon you and hang you on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh from upon you.”

• Genesis 40:22

  but the chief of the bakers he hanged, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.

• Genesis 41:13

  And just as he interpreted for us, so it happened: me he restored to my position, and him he hanged.”

• Deuteronomy 21:22

  And if there is in a man a sin with a sentence of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

• Deuteronomy 21:23

  his corpse shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on that day, for one who is hanged is a curse of Elohim; and you shall not make unclean your ground that YHWH your Elohim is giving you as an inheritance.

• Joshua 8:29

  And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the time of evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua gave command, and they took down his corpse from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which is there to this day.

• Joshua 10:26

  Afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death and hanged them on five trees, and they were hanging on the trees until evening.

• 2 Samuel 4:12

  David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and their feet and hanged them beside the pool in Hebron. But the head of Ish-bosheth they took and buried in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 18:10

  A certain man saw it and told Joab, and said, “Look, I saw Absalom hanging in the oak.”

• 2 Samuel 21:12

  David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the lords of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day the Philistines struck Saul on Gilboa.

• Esther 2:23

  And the matter was investigated and was found, and the two of them were hanged on a pole; and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.

• Esther 5:14

  And Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let them make a pole fifty cubits high, and in the morning tell the king that they should hang Mordecai on it; then go with the king to the banquet glad.” And the matter seemed good to Haman, and he made the pole.

• Esther 6:4

  And the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come to the outer court of the king’s house to say to the king to hang Mordecai on the pole that he had prepared for him.

• Esther 7:9

  And Harbona, one of the eunuchs, said before the king, “Also, look, the pole that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke well for the king, is standing at the house of Haman, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on it.”

• Esther 7:10

  And they hanged Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai; and the fury of the king subsided.

• Esther 8:7

  And King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “Look, the house of Haman I have given to Esther, and him they have hanged on the pole, because he stretched out his hand against the Jews.

• Esther 9:13

  And Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let it be granted also tomorrow to the Jews who are in Susa to do according to the law of today; and let them hang the ten sons of Haman on the pole.”

• Esther 9:14

  And the king said that it should be done so; and a law was given in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.

• Esther 9:25

  But when she came before the king, he said with the letter that his evil plot, which he had plotted against the Jews, should return on his own head; and they hanged him and his sons on the pole.

• Job 26:7

  He stretches out the north over the void; he hangs the earth upon nothing.

• Psalms 137:2

  On the willows in its midst we hung our lyres.

• Song of Songs 4:4

  Like the tower of David is your neck, built in rows; a thousand shields hang on it, all the shields of the mighty men.

• Isaiah 22:24

  And they will hang on him all the glory of the house of his father, the descendants and the offshoots, all the small vessels, from the vessels of bowls to all the vessels of jars.

• Lamentations 5:12

  Princes were hung up by their hand; the face of elders was not honored.

• Ezekiel 15:3

  Is wood taken from it to make something useful? Or do they take from it a peg to hang on it any vessel?

• Ezekiel 27:10

  Persia and Lud and Put were in your army, your men of war; shield and helmet they hung in you; they gave your splendor.

• Ezekiel 27:11

  The sons of Arvad and your army were on your walls all around, and the Gammadites were in your towers; their shields they hung on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.

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