Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
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Usage: roll, book, writing Aramaic equivalent: me.gil.lah (מְגִלָּה "scroll" H4040)
Megillah means “roll” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4039 — perioikeo (“dwell round about”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4039 מְגִלָּה (mgillah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. mgillah (meg-il-law') n-f. 1. a roll [from H1556] It has 19 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include roll and volume. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
mgillah (meg-il-law') n-f. 1. a roll [from H1556] KJV: roll, volume. Root(s): H1556
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4039. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
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Usage: roll, book, writing Aramaic equivalent: me.gil.lah (מְגִלָּה "scroll" H4040)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mgillah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4039.
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD's house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
And they went in to the king into the court, but they laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and told all the words in the ears of the king.
So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would not hear them.
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.
And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?
Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.
And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel.
So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.
And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4039, grouped by book.
Megillah (Strong's H4039) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "roll". mgillah (meg-il-law') n-f. 1. a roll [from H1556]
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H4039 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4039 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as roll and volume. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.