אָלָה
ʼâlâh · H421 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to lament
To loudly express one's grief
ExamplesJoel 1:8 Wail like a virgin clothed with sackcloth For the groom of her youth.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as+ בְּתוּלָהvirgin, young woman 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Curse002003002008
- אָלָה here describes a lamenting wail, as the call to wail like a virgin for the groom of her youth (Joel 1:8).
- Shout002004001009005
- The word conveys a loud, mournful cry of lamentation raised aloud in grief, as the wailing pictured in Joel 1:8.
- Test002004002012
- The lament expresses a people tested by the devastation the prophet describes (Joel 1:8, in context of the locust devastation Joel goes on to describe).
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H421. alah III. [אָלָה] verb wail (Aramaic אֲלָא, ) only Qal Imperative feminine singular…
III. [אָלָה] verb wail (Aramaic אֲלָא, ) only
Qal Imperative feminine singular אֱלִי Joe 1:8 (see אַלְלַי).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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