tal · dew

What it means

tal (טַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dew”.

The moisture of the night, which in a dry land keeps the plants alive.

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. The moisture that falls at night and leaves drops on the ground at dawn.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×2
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• Judges×4
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×2
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Hosea×3
• Micah×1
• Haggai×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 27:28

  May Elohim give you of the dew of the heavens and of the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

• Genesis 27:39

  Isaac his father answered and said to him, “Look, away from the richness of the earth will be your dwelling, and away from the dew of the heavens from above.

• Exodus 16:13

  In the evening quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

• Exodus 16:14

  When the layer of dew had gone up, look, on the surface of the wilderness there was something fine, flaky, fine as frost on the ground.

• Numbers 11:9

  And when the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

• Deuteronomy 32:2

  Let my teaching drip like the rain, let my saying distill like the dew, like showers on the vegetation and like downpours on the grass.

• Deuteronomy 33:13

  And of Joseph he said, “Blessed by YHWH be his land, with the choicest gifts of the heavens, with the dew, and with the deep that lies beneath,

• Deuteronomy 33:28

  And Israel dwells in security; alone the fountain of Jacob, toward a land of grain and new wine; also his heavens drip dew.

• Judges 6:37

  look, I am placing a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece alone, and on all the land dryness, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

• Judges 6:38

  And it was so. He rose early the next day and squeezed the fleece, and he wrung out dew from the fleece, a full bowl of water.

• Judges 6:39

  Gideon said to Elohim, “Do not let your anger burn against me, and let me speak just this time. Please let me test just this time with the fleece: please let there be dryness on the fleece alone, and on all the land let there be dew.”

• Judges 6:40

  Elohim did so that night: there was dryness on the fleece alone, and on all the land there was dew.

• 2 Samuel 1:21

  Mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew and no rain on you, nor fields of contributions; for there the shield of the mighty was abhorred, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

• 2 Samuel 17:12

  So we will come upon him in one of the places where he is found there, and we will settle on him as the dew falls on the ground; and not even one will be left of him and of all the men who are with him.

• 1 Kings 17:1

  Elijah the Tishbite, of the residents of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As YHWH lives, the Elohim of Israel, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

• Job 29:19

  My root is open to the waters, and the dew lodges all night on my branches.

• Job 38:28

  Does the rain have a father? Or who has fathered the drops of dew?

• Psalms 110:3

  Your people are freewill offerings in the day of your power, in splendors of holiness; from the womb of the dawn, to you belongs the dew of your youth.

• Psalms 133:3

  like the dew of Hermon that comes down on the mountains of Zion; for there YHWH commanded the blessing, life forever.

• Proverbs 3:20

  By his knowledge the deeps were split open, and the clouds drip dew.

• Proverbs 19:12

  Like the roar of a young lion is the rage of a king, but like dew on the grass is his favor.

• Song of Songs 5:2

  I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. The voice of my beloved knocking! “Open to me, my sister, my companion, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is filled with dew, my curls with the drops of the night.”

• Isaiah 18:4

  For thus YHWH said to me: “I will be still and look from my dwelling place, like dazzling heat over the light, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

• Isaiah 26:19

  Your dead will live; my corpse, they will rise. Awake and shout for joy, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is a dew of lights, and the earth will cause to fall the shades.

• Hosea 6:4

  What shall I do with you, Ephraim? What shall I do with you, Judah? For your loyal love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that goes away early.

• Hosea 13:3

  Therefore they will be like a morning cloud, and like the dew that goes away early, like chaff that is swept by the storm from the threshing floor, and like smoke from a window.

• Hosea 14:5

  I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily, and strike his roots like Lebanon.

• Micah 5:7

  And the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from YHWH, like showers on the grass, which does not wait for man nor hope for human beings.

• Haggai 1:10

  Therefore, because of you the heavens have held back the dew, and the earth has held back its produce.

• Zechariah 8:12

  For there will be a seed of peace: the vine will give its fruit, and the earth will give its produce, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give as an inheritance to the remnant of this people all these things.

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