Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H423
אָלָה
a.lah · “oath”
Used 36 times across 15 books
Definition
1) oath
2) oath of covenant
3) curse
3a) from God
3b) from men
4) execration
2) oath of covenant
3) curse
3a) from God
3b) from men
4) execration
Where it appears
Genesis3
Leviticus1
Numbers4
Deuteronomy6
1 Kings2
2 Chronicles3
Nehemiah1
Job1
Psalms2
Proverbs1
Isaiah1
Jeremiah4
Ezekiel5
Daniel1
Zechariah1
In the text
Genesis 24:41Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.Genesis 26:28And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;Leviticus 5:1And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.Numbers 5:21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;Numbers 5:23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:Numbers 5:27And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.Deuteronomy 29:11Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:Deuteronomy 29:13That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.Deuteronomy 29:18Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;Deuteronomy 29:19And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
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