מִכְלָה

mikh.la.ah

fold

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Strong’s H4356Noun, masculine3 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Psalms2

Habakkuk1

Translated as

folds1

the folds of1

the fold1

In the text

Psalm 50:9מִמִּכְלְאֹתֶיךָ
I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
Habakkuk 3:17מִמִּכְלָה
Though the fig tree does not bud and no fruit is on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though the sheep are cut off from the fold and no cattle are in the stalls,

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מִכְלָה (incorrect for מכלא) n.[m.] enclosure, fold;—גָּזַר מִמּ׳ צֹאן Hb 3:17; pl. cstr. לקח מִֽמִּכְלְאֹת צֹֽאן ψ 78:70 (obj. David); pl. sf. לקה מִ֝מִּכְלְאֹתֶ֗יךָ 50:9 (obj. he-goats).—II. מִכְלָה v. sub כלה.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.