עָלַל
ʻâlal · aw-lal'
to effect thoroughly; specifically, to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to effect thoroughly; specifically, to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal)
- to effect thoroughly
- specifically, to glean (also figuratively)
- by implication, (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: abuse, affect, [idiom] child, defile, do, glean, mock, practise, thoroughly, work (wonderfully).
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
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › authority, the one who leads › authority, the one who leads
To see and know of authority, the one who leads of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָלַל 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
20 occurrences · 20 OT · 0 NT · 18 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and abuse2 · 10%
- what things i have wrought1 · 5%
- and thou shalt not glean1 · 5%
- because thou hast mocked1 · 5%
- thou shalt not glean1 · 5%
- her, and abused1 · 5%
- and they gleaned1 · 5%
- when he had wrought wonderfully1 · 5%
- and defiled1 · 5%
- to practise1 · 5%
- children1 · 5%
- they shall throughly1 · 5%
- glean1 · 5%
- and they mock1 · 5%
- which is done1 · 5%
- thee; and do1 · 5%
- unto them, as thou hast done1 · 5%
- to whom thou hast done1 · 5%
- affecteth1 · 5%
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.