FROM STRONG’S HEBREW DICTIONARY (1890)

Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary (1890) — public domain, printed whole.

mashal 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.

see HEBREW for 04912