מַרְגְלָה
margla · place of the feet
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4772 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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margla (מַרְגְלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “place of the feet”.
The place of the feet: the part where someone lying down has his feet.
How to say it
mar·gla
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
- The spot by the legs of one lying down.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Ruth 3:4
And when he lies down, take note of the place where he lies; then go in, uncover his feet, and lie down; and he will tell you what you are to do.”
- Ruth 3:7
Boaz ate and drank, and his heart was glad, and he went to lie down at the end of the heap. Then she came quietly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.
- Ruth 3:8
And it happened at midnight that the man trembled and turned over, and look, a woman was lying at his feet.
- Ruth 3:14
So she lay at his feet until the morning, and rose before a man could recognize his companion; and he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”
- Daniel 10:6
and his body was like chrysolite, and his face like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes like torches of fire, and his arms and his feet like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.