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מִלָּה H4406

H4406 is the Hebrew word מִלָּה, transliterated millâh and said mil-law'. The King James Version most often renders it thing.

Word: מִלָּהTransliteration: millâhSaid: mil-law'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 18 verses

What it means

a word, command, discourse, or subject.

Where it comes from

(Aramaic) corresponding to H4405 (מִלָּה).

How the King James Version translates it

Across 20 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

thing 6×words 4×matter 3×made the thing 2×word 2×things 1×commandment 1×great words 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: commandment, matter, thing. word.

Verses using מִלָּה

All 18 verses, quoted in full.

Daniel 2:5 · KJV

The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.

Daniel 2:8 · KJV

The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.

Daniel 2:9 · KJV

But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

Daniel 2:10 · KJV

The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king’s matter: therefore there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean.

Daniel 2:11 · KJV

And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

Daniel 2:15 · KJV

He answered and said to Arioch the king’s captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel.

Daniel 2:17 · KJV

Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:

Daniel 3:22 · KJV

Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Daniel 3:28 · KJV

Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Daniel 4:31 · KJV

While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee.

Daniel 4:33 · KJV

The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

Daniel 5:10 · KJV

Now the queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:

Daniel 5:26 · KJV

This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

Daniel 6:12 · KJV

Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

Daniel 6:14 · KJV

Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

Daniel 7:11 · KJV

I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.

Daniel 7:25 · KJV

And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Daniel 7:28 · KJV

Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

Common questions

What does Strong's H4406 mean?

H4406 is the Hebrew word מִלָּה (millâh), meaning a word, command, discourse, or subject.

How is H4406 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it thing (6 times), words (4 times), matter (3 times), made the thing (2 times), word (2 times), among others.

How many times does H4406 appear in the Bible?

מִלָּה (millâh) is tagged in 18 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H4406 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: (Aramaic) corresponding to H4405 (מִלָּה).

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