Occurrences
ʼâlâh occurs 35 times in 32 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (2), Leviticus (1), Numbers (3), Deuteronomy (6), 1 Kings (1), 2 Chronicles (2), Nehemiah (1), Job (1), Psalms (2), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (1), Jeremiah (4), Ezekiel (5), Daniel (1), Zechariah (1)
- Genesis 24:41 — Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath (מֵאָ֣לָתִ֔י), when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
- Genesis 24:41 — Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath (מֵאָלָתִֽי).
- Genesis 26:28 — And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath (אָלָ֛ה) betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
- Leviticus 5:1 — And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing (אָלָ֔ה), and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
- Numbers 5:21 — Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing (הָאָלָה֒), and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
- Numbers 5:21 — Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse (לְאָלָ֥ה) and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
- Numbers 5:23 — And the priest shall write these curses (הָאָלֹ֥ת) in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
- Numbers 5:27 — And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse (לְאָלָ֖ה) among her people.
- Deuteronomy 29:12 — That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath (וּבְאָלָת֑וֹ), which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
- Deuteronomy 29:14 — Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath (הָאָלָ֖ה);
- Deuteronomy 29:19 — And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse (הָֽאָלָ֜ה), that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
- Deuteronomy 29:20 — The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses (הָ֣אָלָ֔ה) that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
- Deuteronomy 29:21 — And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses (אָל֣וֹת) of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:
- Deuteronomy 30:7 — And the LORD thy God will put all these curses (הָאָל֖וֹת) upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
- 1 Kings 8:31 — If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath (אָלָ֖ה) be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:
- 2 Chronicles 6:22 — If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath (לְהַֽאֲלֹת֑וֹ) be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
- 2 Chronicles 6:22 — If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath (אָלָ֖ה) come before thine altar in this house;
- 2 Chronicles 34:24 — Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses (הָאָלוֹת֙) that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:
- Nehemiah 10:29 — They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse (בְּאָלָ֣ה), and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
- Job 31:30 — Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse (בְּאָלָ֣ה) to his soul.
- Psalms 10:7 — His mouth is full of cursing (אָלָ֤ה) and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Psalms 59:12 — For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing (וּמֵאָלָ֖ה) and lying which they speak.
- Proverbs 29:24 — Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing (אָלָ֥ה), and bewrayeth it not.
- Isaiah 24:6 — Therefore hath the curse (אָלָה֙) devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
- Jeremiah 23:10 — For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing (אָלָה֙) the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.
- Jeremiah 29:18 — And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse (לְאָלָ֤ה), and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them:
- Jeremiah 42:18 — For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration (לְאָלָ֤ה), and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.
- Jeremiah 44:12 — And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration (לְאָלָ֣ה), and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
- Ezekiel 16:59 — For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath (אָלָ֖ה) in breaking the covenant.
- Ezekiel 17:13 — And hath taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath (בְּאָלָ֔ה) of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
- Ezekiel 17:16 — As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath (אָ֣לָת֔וֹ) he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
- Ezekiel 17:18 — Seeing he despised the oath (אָלָ֖ה) by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
- Ezekiel 17:19 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath (אָֽלָתִי֙) that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I recompense upon his own head.
- Daniel 9:11 — Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse (הָאָלָ֣ה) is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
- Zechariah 5:3 — Then said he unto me, This is the curse (הָֽאָלָ֔ה) that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.