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Lexicon :: Strong's H423 - 'ālâ

Aa
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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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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 BoxGen 24:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:41 - And you will be free from your oath to me when you come to my people; and if they will not give her to you, you will be free from your oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:28 - And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and let us make an agreement with you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:1 - And if anyone does wrong by saying nothing when he is put under oath as a witness of something he has seen or had knowledge of, then he will be responsible:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:21 - Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and disease of the stomach;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:23 - And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing out the writing with the bitter water;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:27 - And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:12 - With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:14 - And not with you only do I make this agreement and this oath;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - If such a man, hearing the words of this oath, takes comfort in the thought that he will have peace even if he goes on in the pride of his heart, taking whatever chance may give him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:20 - The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:21 - He will be marked out by the Lord, from all the tribes of Israel, for an evil fate, in keeping with all the curses of the agreement recorded in this book of the law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:7 - And the Lord your God will put all these curses on those who are against you, and on your haters who put a cruel yoke on you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:31 - If a man does wrong to his neighbour, and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:22 - If a man does wrong to his neighbour and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:24 - These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even all the curses in the book which they have been reading before the king of Judah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 10:29 - They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:30 - (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:12 - Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:24 - A man who takes part with a thief has hate for his soul; he is put under oath, but says nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:6 - For this cause the earth is given up to the curse, and those in it are judged as sinners: for this cause those living on the earth are burned up, and the rest are small in number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:10 - For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - I will go after them, attacking them with the sword and with need of food and with disease, and will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a wonder and a surprise and a name of shame among all the nations where I have sent them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:18 - For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: As my wrath and passion have been let loose on the people of Jerusalem, so will my passion be let loose on you when you go into Egypt: and you will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame; and you will never see this place again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - And I will take the last of Judah, whose minds are fixed on going into the land of Egypt and stopping there, and they will all come to their end, falling in the land of Egypt by the sword and by being short of food and by disease; death will overtake them, from the least to the greatest, death by the sword and by need of food: they will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:59

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:59 - For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on one side, have let the agreement be broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:13 - And he took one of the sons of the king and made an agreement with him; and he put him under an oath, and took away the great men of the land:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:16 - By my life, says the Lord, truly in the place of the king who made him king, whose oath he put on one side and let his agreement with him be broken, even in Babylon he will come to his death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:18 - For he put his oath on one side in letting the agreement be broken; and though he had given his hand to it, he did all these things; he will not get away safe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:19 - And so the Lord has said, By my life, truly, for my oath which he put on one side, and my agreement which has been broken, I will send punishment on his head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:11 - And all Israel have been sinners against your law, turning away so as not to give ear to your voice: and the curse has been let loose on us, and the oath recorded in the law of Moses, the servant of God, for we have done evil against him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:3 - Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.
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