עָלַע
ʻâlaʻ · H5966 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to gulp
Action by which animals ingest liquids quickly and large mouthfuls
ExamplesJob 39:30 “His young ones also lick up blood greedily; And where the slain are, there he is.”
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
- אֶפְרֹחַnestlings 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דָּםblood 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
- בֶּלַע belaʻ · H1105 · something swallowed, swallowing, destroying
- The target lexeme (devouring/swallowing) and בֶּלַע (sucking up) both denote ingestion actions, and could plausibly substitute in contexts describing consuming or taking something in.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5966. ala [עָלַע] verb assumed as √ of Pi`el Imperfect3masculine plural בֻדָֿ֑ם לַ…
[עָלַע] verb assumed as √ of
Pi`el Imperfect3masculine plural בֻדָֿ֑ם לַ דלִאוּ יְעַלְע Job 39:30 they drink (?) blood, but read probably יְלַעְלְעוּ (√ I. לוּעַ) Thes Ol De Me Di and others
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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