H4912Noun, masculine39 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
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- Numbers 23:7מְשָׁלוֹ
And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
- 1 Samuel 10:12לְמָשָׁל
Then a man who lived there replied, “And who is their father?” So the saying became a proverb: “Is Saul also among the prophets?”
- Job 13:12מִשְׁלֵי
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
- Psalm 44:14מָשָׁל
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
- Proverbs 1:6מָשָׁל
by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
- Ezekiel 12:22הַמָּשָׁל
“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel: ‘The days go by, and every vision fails’?
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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.