Strong's H4912 · Hebrew

mashal

maw-shawl'

apparently from 4910 in some original sense of superiority in mental action; properly, a pithy maxim, usually of metaphorical nature; hence, a simile (as an adage, poem, discourse)

Scholarly Lexicons

Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)

H4912

H4912 מָשָׁל proverb , parable (of sentences constructed in parallelism , usu. of Hebrew Wisdom, but occas. of other types)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (BDB), 1906 — public domain

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