H4911 · מָשַׁל
mâshal · maw-shal' · like, proverb, speak
H4911 (mâshal, pronounced maw-shal') is the Hebrew word מָשַׁל in Strong’s dictionary: to liken, i.e. (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like). It appears 17 times in 16 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- מָשַׁל (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- mâshal
- Pronunciation
- maw-shal'
- Derivation
- denominative from H4912 (מָשָׁל);
- Definition
- to liken, i.e. (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like); intransitively, to resemble
- Rendered in the KJV
- be(-come) like, compare, use (as a) proverb, speak (in proverbs), utter.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
17 occurrences in 16 verses.
How the BSB renders it
- “I will be” ×1
- “Now speak a parable” ×1
- “To whom will you compare Me” ×1
- “a byword” ×1
- “and I have become” ×1
- “he is like” ×1
- “is like” ×1
- “just telling” ×1
By book
Numbers 1 · Job 2 · Psalms 4 · Isaiah 2 · Ezekiel 7
Verses
- Numbers 21:27
- Job 17:6
- Job 30:19
- Psalms 28:1
- Psalms 49:12
- Psalms 49:20
- Psalms 143:7
- Isaiah 14:10
- Isaiah 46:5
- Ezekiel 12:23
- Ezekiel 16:44
- Ezekiel 17:2
- Ezekiel 18:2
- Ezekiel 18:3
- Ezekiel 20:49
- Ezekiel 24:3
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H4911.