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Lexicon :: Strong's H423 - 'ālâ

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אָלָה
Transliteration
'ālâ
Pronunciation
aw-law'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 91a

Strong’s Definitions

אָלָה ʼâlâh, aw-law'; from H422; an imprecation:—curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x

The KJV translates Strong's H423 in the following manner: curse (18x), oath (14x), execration (2x), swearing (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x
The KJV translates Strong's H423 in the following manner: curse (18x), oath (14x), execration (2x), swearing (2x).

  1. oath

  2. oath of covenant

  3. curse

    1. from God

    2. from men

  4. execration

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָלָה ʼâlâh, aw-law'; from H422; an imprecation:—curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.
STRONGS H423: Abbreviations
† אָלָה noun feminine oath Genesis 26:28 +; suffix אָלָתִי, אָלָתוֺ Genesis 24:11 + (4 times); plural אָלוֺת Deuteronomy 29:20 + (4 times).
1. oath in testimony Leviticus 5:1; Numbers 5:21 (twice in verse) (P) Proverbs 29:23; בא באלה come into an oath Nehemiah 10:30; הביא באלה bring into an oath Ezekiel 17:13; נשׂא אלה 1 Kings 8:31 (= 2 Chronicles 6:22).
2. oath of convenant Genesis 24:41 (twice in verse); Genesis 26:28 (J) Deuteronomy 29:11; Deuteronomy 29:13; בזה אלה despise an oath Ezekiel 16:59; Ezekiel 17:16, 18, 19.
3. curse
(a) from God Numbers 5:23 (P) Deuteronomy 29:18; Deuteronomy 29:19; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 30:7; 2 Chronicles 34:24; Isaiah 24:6; Jeremiah 23:10; Daniel 9:11; Zechariah 5:3;
(b) from men Job 31:30; Psalm 10:7; Psalm 59:13.
4. execration in the phrase היה לאלה become an execration Numbers 5:27 (P) Jeremiah 29:18; Jeremiah 42:18; Jeremiah 44:12.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

24:11; 24:41; 26:28; 26:28

Leviticus

5:1

Numbers

5:21; 5:23; 5:27

Deuteronomy

29:11; 29:13; 29:18; 29:19; 29:20; 29:20; 30:7

1 Kings

8:31

2 Chronicles

6:22; 34:24

Nehemiah

10:30

Job

31:30

Psalms

10:7; 59:13

Proverbs

29:23

Isaiah

24:6

Jeremiah

23:10; 29:18; 42:18; 44:12

Ezekiel

16:59; 17:13; 17:16; 17:18; 17:19

Daniel

9:11

Zechariah

5:3

H423

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Strong's Number H423 matches the Hebrew אָלָה ('ālâ),
which occurs 36 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:41 - Then you will be free from my oath H423, when you come to my relatives. Now if they do not give her to you, you will be free from my oath H423.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28 - Then they said, “We see plainly that Yahweh has been with you; so we said, ‘Let there now be an oath H423 between us—between [fn]you and us—and let us cut a covenant with you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1 -

‘Now if a person sins after he hears a [fn]public oath H423 to testify when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his [fn]guilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - (then the priest shall have the woman swear with the oath of the curse H423, and the priest shall say to the woman), “Yahweh make you a curse H423 and an oath among your people by Yahweh making your thigh fall away and your abdomen swell;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23 -

‘The priest shall then write these curses H423 on a scroll, and he shall [fn]wash them off into the water of bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - ‘So he will have her drink the water, and it will be that, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, that the water which brings curses will go into her to cause bitterness, and her abdomen will swell and her thigh will fall away, and the woman will become a curse H423 among her people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:12 - that you may enter into the covenant with Yahweh your God and into His oath H423, which Yahweh your God is cutting with you today,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:14 -

“Now not with you alone am I cutting this covenant and this oath H423,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - “And it will be when he hears the words of this curse H423, that he will [fn]bless himself in his heart, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order [fn]to sweep away the watered land with the dry.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - “Yahweh shall not be willing to pardon him, but rather the anger of Yahweh and His jealousy will [fn]burn against that man, and every curse H423 which is written in this book will [fn]rest on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - “Then Yahweh will separate him out for [fn]adversity from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses H423 of the covenant which are written in this book of the law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:7 - “And Yahweh your God will [fn]inflict all these curses H423 on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 -

“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath H423, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 -

“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath H423, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:24 - thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the curses H423 written in the book which they have read in the presence of the king of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - are [fn]joining with their [fn]relatives, their nobles, and are entering into a curse H423 and an oath to walk in God’s law, which was given by the hand of Moses, God’s servant, and to keep and to do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord and His judgments and His statutes;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 -

“But I have not given over my [fn]mouth to sin

By asking for his life in a curse H423—

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 -

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His mouth is full of curses H423 and deceit and oppression;

Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 59:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:12 -

[fn]On account of the sin of their mouth and the word of their lips,

Let them even be caught in their pride,

And on account of curses H423 and [fn]lies which they utter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24 -

He who [fn]divides the spoil with a thief hates his own soul;

He hears the oath H423 but declares nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:6 - Therefore, a curse H423 devours the earth, and those who inhabit it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men remain.

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For the land is full of adulterers;

For the land mourns because of the curse H423.

The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.

Their course also is evil,

And their might is not right.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - ‘I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence; and I will give them over to be a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse H423 and an object of horror and of hissing, and a reproach among all the nations where I have banished them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 -

For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “As My anger and wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. And you will become a curse H423, an object of horror, an imprecation, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - ‘And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have set their face on entering the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they will all [fn]meet their end in the land of Egypt; they will fall by the sword and [fn]meet their end by famine. Both small and great will die by the sword and famine; and they will become a curse H423, an object of horror, an imprecation, and a reproach.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:59

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:59 - For thus says Lord Yahweh, “I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath H423 by breaking the covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - ‘He took one of the royal seed and cut a covenant with him and brought him under oath H423. He also took away the dominant one of the land,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16 - ‘As I live,’ declares Lord Yahweh, ‘Surely in the [fn]country of the king who made him king, whose oath H423 he despised and whose covenant he broke, [fn]in Babylon he shall die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:18 - ‘Now he despised the oath H423 by breaking the covenant, and behold, he [fn]pledged his allegiance, yet did all these things; he shall not escape.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 17:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:19 - Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “As I live, surely My oath H423 which he despised and My covenant which he broke, I will [fn]put on his head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - “Indeed all Israel has trespassed against Your law, even turning aside, not listening to Your voice; so the curse H423 has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the [fn]law of Moses the [fn]servant of God, for we have sinned against Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3 - Then he said to me, “This is the curse H423 that is going forth over the face of the whole [fn]land; surely everyone who steals will be [fn]purged away according to [fn]the writing on one side, and everyone who swears will be [fn]purged away according to the writing on the other side.
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