Lexical Definition

‎דַּלָּה‎ dallâh (dal-law') hair ^H:N-F
from ‎דָּלָה‎

hair, pining sickness, poor(-est sort).

• properly, something dangling, i.e. a loose thread or hair
• figuratively, indigent

1) hair, threads, thrum (threads of warp hanging in loom)
2) poor (usually coll of helpless people)
3)(TWOT) poorest, lowest

See Greek: κατάλοιπος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎דַּלָּה‎ noun feminine collective, hair, thrum (both front hanging down) — ‎דַּלָּה‎ Isa 38:12 construct ‎דַּלַּת‎ Song 7:6* — hair, ‎ראשׁך‎ ‎׳‎‎ד‎ Song 7:6* thrum (threads of warp hanging in loom) in simile of premature death ‎מִדַּלָּה יְבַצְּעֵנִי‎ Isa 38:12.

II. [‎דַּלָּה‎] noun feminine the poor — construct ‎דַּלַּת‎ Jer 40:7 + 2 t.; plural ‎דַּלּוֺת‎ Jer 52:15; Jer 52:16 — the poor (collective, weak, helpless ones) Jer 40:7; 2Kgs 24:14; 2Kgs 25:12 (in || Jer 52:16, as also vJer 52:15, ᵑ0 has strangely the plural)

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