tal denotes moisture that falls or settles as dew, also used in comparisons and images of provision.

The occurrences present tal as dew: moisture associated with the heavens, night, ground, plants, and fields, which may be present, withheld, or described as departing. The same concrete phenomenon supplies comparisons for an advancing force, fleeting kindness, royal favor, and other images, without requiring a separate lexical sense.

1. Dew falling, settling, or supplied from heaven · dominant

   The noun names moisture that lies around the camp and then goes up in Exodus 16:13 and Exodus 16:14, falls at night in Numbers 11:9, and lodges on foliage in Job 29:19. In Judges 6:37 and Judges 6:40 it distinguishes the fleece from the surrounding land; in Haggai 1:10 the heavens restrain it. The same physical phenomenon supplies comparisons: in 2 Samuel 17:12 the APB renders an attack as settling "as dew settles on the ground," while Hosea 6:4 compares kindness with dew that "rises and departs."

   Exodus 16:13Exodus 16:14Numbers 11:9Job 29:19Judges 6:37Hosea 6:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the noun as "dew," describing it as lying, falling, rising, settling, or being withheld. Some verses containing the form do not visibly use that English word in the supplied translation, so its precise English correspondence is not always isolable.