מִכְלָאָה
michlaa · fold, pen
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4356 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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michlaa (מִכְלָאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fold, pen”.
An enclosure where the flock is kept.
How to say it
mi·chla·a
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
- An enclosure where the sheep are kept at night.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- folds ×2
- fold ×1
Where it appears
- Psalms 50:9
I will not take from your house a young bull, from your folds male goats.
- Psalms 78:70
And he chose David his servant, and took him from the folds of the sheep;
- Habakkuk 3:17
Though the fig tree does not blossom, and there is no yield on the vines, the work of the olive lies, and the fields do not produce food, the flock is cut off from the fold, and there are no cattle in the stalls,