Hebrew word · H8524

תָּלוּל

vetalul

eminent

Lofty, towering, prominent. It occurs only here in the Bible and is probably from the root tll, as in tel, a raised mound.

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

1) (CLBL) to exalt

1a) (Qal) eminent, exalted (participle)

adj

2) (BDB) exalted, lofty

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

Range of meaning: Lofty, towering, prominent. It occurs only here in the Bible and is probably from the root tll, as in tel, a raised mound.
Against the English: KJV 'eminent', BSB/WEB 'lofty', YLT 'lofty'. All convey height. KJV's 'eminent' keeps the old sense of 'standing out above'.
Used elsewhere in the period: Hapax legomenon (a word that occurs only once in the Bible). The Septuagint appears to have connected it with talah, 'to hang', and rendered it with a verb meaning 'I will hang it' (see textual notes), which shows ancient uncertainty about the word.

Ezekiel · 1

Ezekiel 17:22 וְתָלֽוּל׃ and lofty

This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take a shoot from the lofty top of the cedar, and I will set it out. I will pluck a tender sprig from its topmost shoots, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

Here: A word found only here in the Bible, probably related to 'tel' (a raised mound). It doubles 'high' to give the sense of an outstanding, towering height.

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