Lexical Definition

‎תַּלְתַּל‎ taltal (tal-tal') lock ^H:N-F
by reduplication, from ‎תָּלַל‎ through the idea of vibration

bushy.

• a trailing bough (as pendulous)

1) wavy, branchy (used of woman's hair-fig)
1a) meaning uncertain

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎תַּלְתַּלִּים‎ noun feminine (?) plural as figurative of woman's locks, meaning dubious: ‎שְׁחרוֺת כָּעורֵב‎ ‎׳‎‎קְוֻצּוֺתָיו ת‎ Song 5:11 Thes (from above √) waving palm-branches, ᵐ5 ἐλάται; Late Hebrew once, figurative, Levy^{NHWB iv. 649} high hills compare Jastr^{Dict 1674} heaps, piles; but Magnus^{Hohes Lied and} Jacob^{Stud. Arab Dichter iv. 21} envelope or sheath of spadix of date-palm (with which hair often compare in Arabic poetry Jacob^{Ib. iii. 46 f}, compare Arabic drinking vessel made of this envelope Lane); so perhaps Assyrian taltallu Dl^{HWB 708}.

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