עֲלַע
ʻălaʻ · H5967 · Aramaic · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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fang, tusk
Literally: rib; hence, probably: a large pointed tooth
ExamplesDaniel 7:5 “And behold, another beast, a second one, resembling a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and they said this to it: ‘Arise, devour much meat!’
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
- תְּלָתthird 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פֻּםmouth 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- πλευρά pleurá · G4125 · side of the body
- Greek translation equivalent for Hebrew 'rib' in anatomical contexts; standard LXX rendering of the Hebrew cognate צֵלָע (tsêlâʻ, H6763) in Genesis 2:21-22 for the rib taken from Adam
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Animals001001002
- Daniel 7:5 recounts Daniel's vision, “and behold, another beast, a second one, resembling a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and they said this to it: ‘Arise, devour much meat!’”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5967. ala [עֲלַע] noun feminine rib (ᵑ7 Syriac; see Biblical Hebrew I. צֵלָע צלע,); —…
[עֲלַע] noun feminine rib (ᵑ7 Syriac; see Biblical Hebrew I. צֵלָע צלע,); — plural absolute עִלְעִין Dan 7:5.
[עֲלָת] see עלה. above
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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