Strong's #4911: mashal (pronounced maw-shal')
denominative from 4912; to liken, i.e. (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like); intransitively, to resemble:--be(-come) like, compare, use (as a) proverb, speak (in proverbs), utter.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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mâshal
1) to represent, liken, be like
1a) (Niphal) to liken, be like, be similar
1b) (Hiphil) to compare
1c) (Hithpael) to become like
2) to speak in a proverb, use a proverb, speak in parables, speak in sentences of poetry
2a) (Qal) to use a proverb, speak a parable or proverb
2b) (Piel) to make a parable
2b1) maker of parables (participle)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: denominative from H4912
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1258, 1258b
Usage:
This word is used 16 times:
Numbers 21:27: "Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon"
Job 30:19: "He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes."
Psalms 28:1: "me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit."
Psalms 49:12: "being in honor abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish."
Psalms 49:20: "that is in honor, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish."
Psalms 143:7: "not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit."
Isaiah 14:10: "unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto"
Isaiah 46:5: "To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?"
Ezekiel 12:23: "to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but"
Ezekiel 16:44: "Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter."
Ezekiel 16:44: "Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter."
Ezekiel 17:2: "of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;"
Ezekiel 18:2: "What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land"
Ezekiel 18:3: "ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel."
Ezekiel 20:49: "say of me, Doth he not speak parables?"
Ezekiel 24:3: " And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus"
