# H5940 עֱלִי

עֱלִי (ʻĕlîy), Strong’s H5940: a pestle (as lifted) KJV: pestle.. Occurs 1 times.

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*ʻĕlîy* — a pestle (as lifted)

KJV: pestle.

Derived from [עָלָה ʻâlâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H5927) (to ascend, intransitively)

Occurs 1 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עֱלִי n.[m.] pestle (as rising before the blow);—Pr 27:22.

## Where it occurs
- [Proverbs 27:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/27?v=22) — Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.