H1803a H1803a
hair of the head; thrum (threads hanging from a loom)
This word refers to hair hanging down from the head, or by extension, the threads (thrum) hanging from a weaver's loom. Song of Songs 7:5 uses it poetically for flowing hair, while Isaiah 38:12 employs it metaphorically in a simile about premature death—the weaver cutting the thrum from the loom represents life being cut short. The common element is something that hangs down, whether hair or unfinished threads.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The glosses reveal two contexts: 'hair/chevelure' (Song 7:5) and 'loom/telar' (Isa 38:12). Both share the imagery of something hanging down. The Song passage celebrates a woman's flowing hair, while Isaiah uses the technical weaving term for threads hanging in a loom as a poignant metaphor for life's fragility—God cuts the speaker's life 'from the loom' like a weaver finishing (or abandoning) his work. 2×
AR["مِنَ-السَّدَاةِ", "وَشَعْرُ"]·ben["এবং-চুলের-ধারা", "সুতা-থেকে"]·DE["[מדלה]", "und-Tuer"]·EN["and-hair-of", "from-the-loom"]·FR["[מדלה]", "et-la-chevelure"]·heb["ו-דלת", "מ-דלה"]·HI["और-लटें", "धागे-से"]·ID["dan-rambut", "dari-mesin-tenun"]·IT["[מדלה]", "e-e-hair-of"]·jav["lan-rambut", "tukang-tenun"]·KO["그리고-머리카락-이", "베틀에서"]·PT["do-tear", "e-a-tranca-de"]·RU["и-косы", "от-нитей"]·ES["del-telar", "y-la-cabellera-de"]·SW["kutoka-kitambaa", "na-nywele"]·TR["iplikten", "ve-orgusu"]·urd["اور-بال", "تار-سے"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† I. דַּלָּה n.f. coll., hair, thrum (both from hanging down)—דַּלָּה Is 38:12; cstr. דַּלַּת Ct 7:6;—hair, ד׳ ראשׁך Ct 7:6; thrum (threads of warp hanging in loom) in sim. of premature death מִדַּלָּה יְבַצְּעֵנִי Is 38:12.