Strong H8518תָּלָה

to hang

Transliteration
tâlâh
Pronunciation
taw-law'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; to suspend (especially to gibbet): - hang (up).

Detailed definition

1) to hang
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to hang
1a1a) to hang up (any object)
1a1b) to put to death by hanging
1b) (Niphal) to be hanged
1c) (Piel) to hang, hang up (for display)

In the Bible

Strong H8518 appears in 27 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • hang24
  • hanged1
  • hangeth1
  • up1

First verses

  1. Genesis 40:19
    Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
  2. Genesis 40:22
    But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.
  3. Genesis 41:13
    And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
  4. Deuteronomy 21:22
    And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
  5. Deuteronomy 21:23
    His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
  6. Joshua 8:29
    And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
  7. Joshua 10:26
    And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
  8. 2 Samuel 4:12
    And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish–bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
  9. 2 Samuel 18:10
    And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak.
  10. 2 Samuel 21:12
    And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh–gilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth–shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
  11. Esther 2:23
    And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
  12. Esther 5:14
    Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
  13. Esther 6:4
    And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
  14. Esther 7:9
    And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
  15. Esther 7:10
    So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
  16. Esther 8:7
    Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
  17. Esther 9:13
    Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
  18. Esther 9:14
    And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
  19. Esther 9:25
    But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
  20. Job 26:7
    He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
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