# H423 אָלָה

אָלָה (ʼâlâh), Strong’s H423: an imprecation KJV: curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.. Occurs 36 times.

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*ʼâlâh* — an imprecation

KJV: curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.

Derived from [אָלָה ʼâlâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H422) (to adjure)

Occurs 36 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/5?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/5?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/5?v=23) — “‘The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall wipe them into the water of bitterness.
- [Numbers 5:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/5?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=13) — Neither do I make this covenant and this oath with you only,
- [Deuteronomy 29:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=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…