אָלַח
ʼâlach · H444 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to be evil, to be corrupted
State of being totally evil and corrupted in one's thinking and actions
ExamplesJob 15:16 How much less one who is detestable and corrupt: A person who drinks malice like water!
Psalm 14:3 They have all turned aside, together they are corrupt; There is no one who does good, not even one.
Psalm 53:3 Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt; There is no one who does good, not even one.
How it’s used In 3 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
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: they 2
With adverbsAdverbs
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- יַחַדtogether 2
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- גָּאַל gâʼal · H1351 · to redeem oneself, to reclaim oneself, to redeem
- Both the target term and גאל (gâʼal, H1351) describe becoming or causing uncleanness or filth, a genuine sense overlap suitable for near-synonymy within a reasonably scoped semantic field. Both words are rare, so while the overlap is real, the evidence supporting it remains at the level of shared meaning rather than broader corroboration.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀχρειόω achreióō · G889 · to go wrong, to become perverse
- Greek ἀχρειόω renders Hebrew אָלַח in LXX contexts where moral/spiritual corruption is metaphorically expressed as 'becoming useless' or 'spoiled,' capturing the functional result (unfitness) of the defilement process denoted by the Hebrew root.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Evil002001002007
- אָלַח describes becoming morally corrupt or filthy, as those who have all turned aside and become corrupt.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H444. alach [אָלַח] verb only Niph`al be corrupt morally; tainted (Che Psa 14:3) (compare…
[אָלַח] verb only
Niph`al be corrupt morally; tainted (Che Psa 14:3) (compare Arabic VIII. be confused (of a thing), of milk, turn sour) Perfect3plural נֶאֱלָ֑חוּ Psa 14:3; Psa 53:4; Participle נֶאֱלָח a corrupt man Job 15:16.
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
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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