FROM STRONG’S HEBREW DICTIONARY (1890)

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

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):--byword, like, parable, proverb.

see HEBREW for 04910