{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H423",
  "lemma": "אָלָה",
  "transliteration": "ʼâlâh",
  "definition": "an imprecation",
  "kjv": "curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.",
  "occurrences": 36,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H422",
      "lemma": "אָלָה",
      "transliteration": "ʼâlâh",
      "meaning": "to adjure",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H422"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "אָלָה n.f. oath",
    "1. oath in testimony",
    "2. oath of covenant",
    "3. curse",
    "4. execration"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 24:41",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=41"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 26:28",
      "text": "They said, “We saw plainly that the LORD was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 5:1",
      "text": "“‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/5?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 5:21",
      "text": "then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall tell the woman, “May the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/5?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 5:23",
      "text": "“‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/5?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 5:27",
      "text": "When he has made her drink the water, then it shall happen, if she is defiled and has committed a trespass against her…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/5?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 29:11",
      "text": "that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, and into his oath, which the LORD your God makes with you…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 29:13",
      "text": "Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 29:18",
      "text": "and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 29:19",
      "text": "The LORD will not pardon him, but then the LORD’s anger and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=19"
    }
  ],
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  "credit": "Besorah (https://besorah.bible). Texts and word data are open; terms and licences:",
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  "credits": "https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html"
}