tar.e.lah denotes reeling, depicted in Isaiah as the dreg of a cup that Jerusalem has drunk.

The attested use depicts reeling in the imagery of a cup: Isaiah 51:17 and Isaiah 51:22 place the noun in the repeated clause about a cup that has been drunk and then removed. Psalm 60:5 contains the same noun form, though the supplied APB rendering does not isolate its contribution there.

1. Reeling in cup imagery · dominant

   In Isaiah 51:17, the feminine singular absolute noun occurs in the clause about Jerusalem drinking and draining the dreg of a cup; the APB renders the phrase "the dreg of the cup of reeling." Isaiah 51:22 repeats the cup image as God takes it away, while Psalm 60:5 has the same noun form but its supplied APB wording does not make the noun's specific contribution clear.

   Isaiah 51:17Isaiah 51:22Psalm 60:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly renders the Isaiah cup clauses as "the cup of reeling" and "the dreg of the cup of reeling." In Psalm 60:5, the supplied translation does not visibly identify a corresponding English expression.