H8531 — תְּלַת
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced
BDB8365
שֵׁאת noun feminine doubtful word; perhaps (for *שֶׁאֶת) din of battle (= שָׁאוֺן); Thes and others devastation, compare שְׁאִיָּה; either meaning suits ׳ הַשּׁ Lam 3:47 (|| הַשָּׁ֑בֶר; but Wecompare Hex. 2, 351, from II. שׁוא, desolation); contracted (according to Thes and most) שֵׁת, in בְּנֵי שֵׁת Num 24:17 ( J ) sons of (battle-)din (warriors, = שָׁאוֺןבְּנֵי in || Jer 48:45); Vrss take שֵׁת here as proper name; Gray proposes שֵׂת = שְׂאֵת, pride, or reading as Jeremiah compare Wecomp. Hex.351.
BDB10001
[תְלַּתּ] noun [masculine] a third part (so ᵑ7 תֻלְּתָֿ, תַּלְתָּא, Syriac [untranscribed source text 6192], Nabataean תלת SAC121, Arabic [untranscribed source text 6193], [untranscribed source text 6194], Assyrian šulultu (= šuluštu) MeissnSuppl. 95 , compare DlWB; see also M88 * Dr Dan 5:7 ); — emphatic תַּלְתָּא adverb as one of three Dan 5:16; Dan 5:29 (Bev the third day, every three days, see So in M88 *).