Lexicon meal: a going in Original Word: מֶעָלֵיPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: meal Phonetic Spelling: (may-awl') Short Definition: sunset NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin(Aramaic) from alalDefinitiona going in NASB Translationsunset* (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ מֶעָל] noun [masculine] going in (Syriac, ᵑ7J; ᵑ7Onk, etc., מַעֲלָנָא); — plural construct מֶעָלֵי שִׁמְשָׁא Daniel 6:15 i.e. sunset (so read Nö GGA, 1884, 1020 Str M Bev, compare Syriac , ; > van d. H. Gi מֵעָלֵי, Baer מַעֲלֵי; compare K §, Beisp. b)). Strong's going down (Aramaic) from alal; (only in plural as singular) the setting (of the sun) -- going down. see HEBREW alal |
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