Tᵉʻâlâh — H8585

Definition

feminine noun

a channel (into which water is raised for irrigation); also a bandage or plaster (as placed upon a wound)

1. conduit, water course, trench
2. healing (of new flesh and skin forming over wound)
1. (CLBL) bandage, plaister (for healing of wound)

Usually translated as

conduit, trench, cured, healing, watercourse, little river

Origin

from H5927

• Derived from ʻâlâh (H5927)

Greek equivalents

• thálassa (G2281)
• rhýsis (G4511)

Occurrences

Tᵉʻâlâh occurs 11 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Kings (3), 2 Kings (2), Job (1), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (2), Ezekiel (1)

• 1 Kings 18:32 — And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench (תְּעָלָ֗ה) about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
• 1 Kings 18:35 — And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench (הַתְּעָלָ֖ה) also with water.
• 1 Kings 18:38 — Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench (בַּתְּעָלָ֖ה).
• 2 Kings 18:17 — And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit (בִּתְעָלַת֙) of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
• 2 Kings 20:20 — And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit (הַתְּעָלָ֔ה), and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
• Job 38:25 — Who hath divided a watercourse (תְּעָלָ֑ה) for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
• Isaiah 7:3 — Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit (תְּעָלַת֙) of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field;
• Isaiah 36:2 — And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit (בִּתְעָלַת֙) of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
• Jeremiah 30:13 — There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing (תְּעָלָ֖ה) medicines.
• Jeremiah 46:11 — Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured (תְּעָלָ֖ה).
• Ezekiel 31:4 — The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers (תְּעָלֹתֶ֣יהָ) unto all the trees of the field.