אָלָה
ʼâlâh · aw-law'
an imprecation
Lexicon
Derivation: from H422 (אָלָה);
an imprecation
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › authority, the one who leads › to reveal, behold
Strength, the leader of authority, the one who leads that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אָלָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
35 occurrences · 35 OT · 0 NT · 29 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of swearing2 · 7%
- of cursing2 · 7%
- and an oath2 · 7%
- and the oath2 · 7%
- the oath2 · 7%
- from this my oath1 · 3%
- from my oath1 · 3%
- let there be now an oath1 · 3%
- thee a curse1 · 3%
- these curses1 · 3%
- shall be a curse1 · 3%
- and into his oath1 · 3%
- and this oath1 · 3%
- of this curse1 · 3%
- and all the curses1 · 3%
- according to all the curses1 · 3%
- all these curses1 · 3%
- thereof, even all the curses1 · 3%
- into a curse1 · 3%
- a curse1 · 3%
- and for cursing1 · 3%
- cursing1 · 3%
- therefore hath the curse1 · 3%
- to be a curse1 · 3%
- and ye shall be an execration1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.