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Friday, October 31st, 2025
the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30

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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #4208 - מַזָּל

Transliteration

mazzâlâh

Phonetics

maz-zaw-law'

Origin

apparently from (H5140) in the sense of raining

Parts of Speech

feminine noun

TWOT

1173

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

constellations
1. signs of zodiac (maybe)

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

2 Kings 1

BSB (1)

2 Kings 1

CSB (1)

2 Kings 1

ESV (1)

2 Kings 1

KJV (1)

2 Kings 1

LEB (1)

2 Kings 1

LSB (1)

2 Kings 1

N95 (1)

2 Kings 1

NAS (1)

2 Kings 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

2 Kings 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2387) l z n (נזל NZL) AC: Flow CO: Stream AB: ?: [from: lz- as a shaking]

V) l z n (נזל NZL) - Flow: To flow water, or to flow like water. KJV (16): (vf: Paal, Hiphil, Participle) flood, flow, stream, pour, distil, melt, drop, waters, pour, gush - Strongs: H5140 (נָזַל)

a^f1) e l z n m (מנזלה MNZLH) - Milky way: As a flowing river in the night sky. [df: hlzm] KJV (1): planet - Strongs: H4208 (מַזָּל)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

מַזָּלוֺת noun [feminine] plural constellations, perhaps signs of the zodiac (probably loan-word from Assyrian manzaltu, mazaltu, station, abode (of gods) Dl^{HWB 457; Prol. 142} Jen^{Kosmologie 348}; compare Late Hebrew מַזָּלוֺת, id.; מַזָּל Aramaic מַזָּלָא, star of fortune or fate Phoenician זל נעם[מ] CIS^95,8 (Vog; bilingual inscription; Greek ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ); Syriac

zodiac PS¹⁰⁹;

mansiones lunae, Lexicons, PS²³³²; Arabic

(loan-word according to Hoffm^{ZAW iii. 1883,110}. Suidas μαζουρωθ = ζωδία); — only ׳לַמַּזּ 2 Kings 23:5 as object of worship (+ בֵּעַל, שֶׁמֶשׁ, יָרֵחַ, and כָּלצְֿבָא הַשָּׁמָ֑יִם) ᵐ5 τοῖς μαζουρωθ; probably= מַזַּרוֺת Job 38:32.

מַזְלֵג, [מִזְלָגָה] see זלג. מְזִמָּה see זמם..

מִזְמוֺר see I. זמר.

מְזַמֶּרֶת, מַזְמֵרָה see II. זמר.

מִזְעָר see זער.

I. מזר (? √ of following so Thes⁷⁸¹ compare Ba^{NB §164 c}; otherwise Gei^{Urschrift 52:} Late Hebrew מָזַר and Aramaic be bad (of eggs), Arabic be foul, corrupt).

List of Word Forms

וְלַמַּזָּל֔וֹת ולמזלות velammazzaLot wə·lam·maz·zā·lō·wṯ wəlammazzālōwṯ