H423 אָלָה
ʼâlâh — an imprecation
KJV: curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.
Derived from אָלָה ʼâlâh (to adjure)
Occurs 36 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אָלָה n.f. oath
- 1 oath in testimony
- 2 oath of covenant
- 3 curse
- 4 execration
Where it occurs
- Genesis 24:41 — Then you will be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear…
- Genesis 26:28 — They said, “We saw plainly that the LORD was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us…
- Leviticus 5:1 — “‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if…
- Numbers 5:21 — then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May the…
- Numbers 5:23 — “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
- Numbers 5:27 — When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her…
- Deuteronomy 29:11 — that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you…
- Deuteronomy 29:13 — Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,
- Deuteronomy 29:18 — and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace…
- Deuteronomy 29:19 — The LORD will not pardon him, but then the LORD’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse…