עָלֶה
ʻâleh · aw-leh'
a leaf (as coming up on a tree); collectively, foliage
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5927 (עָלָה);
a leaf (as coming up on a tree); collectively, foliage
- a leaf (as coming up on a tree)
- collectively, foliage
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: branch, leaf.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- 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)
to see and know › authority, the one who leads › to reveal, behold
To see and know of authority, the one who leads that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָלֶה 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
18 occurrences · 18 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- branches4 · 22%
- leaf2 · 11%
- whose leaf2 · 11%
- and the leaf2 · 11%
- leaves1 · 6%
- and branches1 · 6%
- a leaf1 · 6%
- his leaf1 · 6%
- as a branch1 · 6%
- as the leaf1 · 6%
- as a leaf1 · 6%
- but her leaf1 · 6%
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.