Aramaic word · H4040

מְגִלָּה

megilah

scroll

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

scroll, roll, book

Aramaic of me.gil.lah (מְגִלָּה "scroll" H4039)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 6:2 מְגִלָּ֣ה a scroll

    And a scroll was found in the fortress of Ecbatana, in the province of Media, with the following written on it: Memorandum:

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.