Strong's Lexicon

H423

H423 — אָלָה

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewalahnoun femOccurrences: 36TWOT: 91a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H423
Word:אָלָה
Part of Speech:noun fem
Etymology:from H422
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:36
Transliteration:alah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:aw-law'
Meaning:1. (properly) an oath, (usually, in a bad sense) a curse
KJV Renderings:curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.

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אָלָה noun feminine oath Gen 26:28 +; suffix אָלָתִי, אָלָתוֺ Gen 24:11 + (4 t.); plural אָלוֺת Deut 29:20 + (4 t).

1. oath in testimony Lev 5:1; Num 5:21 (twice in verse) ( P ) Prov 29:23 בא באלה come into an oath Neh 10:30 הביא באלה bring into an oath Ezek 17:13 נשׂא אלה 1Kgs 8:31 ( = 2Chr 6:22).
2. oath of convenant Gen 24:41 (twice in verse); Gen 26:28 ( J ) Deut 29:11; Deut 29:13 בזה אלה despise an oath Ezek 16:59 ; Ezek 17:16; Ezek 17:18; Ezek 17:19.
3. curse
(a) from God Num 5:23 ( P ) Deut 29:18; Deut 29:19; Deut 29:20; Deut 30:7; Deut 2:24;
(b) from men Job 31:30; Ps 10:7; Ps 59:13.
4. execration in the phrase היה לאלה become an execration Num 5:27 ( P ) Jer 29:18; Jer 42:18; Jer 44:12.


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

אלה (ah-lah’)

Genesis 24:41

KJV: Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
EHCC: be clear (this) my oath,

Genesis 26:28

KJV: And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;We saw…: Heb. Seeing we saw
EHCC: Let there be now an oath betwixt us,

Leviticus 5:1

KJV: And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
EHCC: hearthe voice of swearing,

Numbers 5:21

KJV: Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;rot: Heb. fall
EHCC: the woman with an oath of cursing,

Deuteronomy 29:12

KJV: That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:enter: Heb. pass
EHCC: (11). and into his oath, which the Lord

Deuteronomy 80:7

EHCC: put all these curses upon thine enemies,

1 Kings 8:31

KJV: If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:and an oath…: Heb. and he require an oath of him
EHCC: an oath be Jaid upon ‘im

2 Chronicles 6:22

KJV: If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;and an oath…: Heb. and he require an oath of him
EHCC: ax oath be laid upon him

2 Chronicles 34:24

KJV: Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
EHCC: all the curses that are written

Nehemiah 10:29

KJV: They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;by: Heb. by the hand of
EHCC: (30). entered into a curse,

Proverbs 29:24

KJV: Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
EHCC: he beareth cerning ם

Jeremiah 23:10

KJV: For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.swearing: or, cursingcourse: or, violence
EHCC: because of swearing the land mourneth ;

Jeremiah 29:18

KJV: And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:to be a curse: Heb. for a curse
EHCC: to be a curse, and an astonishment, (marg.

Jeremiah 42:18

KJV: For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
EHCC: ye shall be an execration,

Jeremiah 44:12

KJV: And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
EHCC: they shall be an ezecration,

Jeremiah 17:18

KJV: Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.destroy…: Heb. break them with a double breach
EHCC: hath taken an oath of him:

Daniel 9:11

KJV: Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
EHCC: therefore the ere boos ee

Zechariah 5:8

KJV: And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
EHCC: This (is) the curse that goeth

Joshua 24:26

KJV: And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.
EHCC: set it up there under an oak,
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