אַלָּה
ʼallâh · H427 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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terebinth
Tree, more commonly known as אֵלָה, with a broad crown, heavy branches, and thick trunk; may reach a height of 7.5 to 9 m.; sheds its leaves; has small an inconspicuous flowers; pictacia terebinthus; its stem contains aromatic turpentine, a resinous juice, which flows out when the bark is cut; it provides pleasant shade; imposing tree, preferred place to sit under and enjoy the shade, associated with cultic worship
ExamplesJoshua 24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God; and he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
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
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִקְדָּשׁsanctuary, holy place 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- תַּחַתunder, below, instead of 2
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 1 entry
- Trees001002007002
- אַלָּה names a large tree, the oak by the sanctuary under which Joshua set up a memorial stone.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H427. allah אַלָּה noun feminine oak (compare אַלּוֺן, but ᵐ5 here τερέμινθος) only Jos…
אַלָּה noun feminine oak (compare אַלּוֺן, but ᵐ5 here τερέμινθος) only Jos 24:26 the oak which is in the sanctuary of ׳י; read however perhaps אֵלָה, terebinth (see I. אֵלָה).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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