ʼElʻâlêʼ — H500

Definition

locative proper noun

Elale or Elaleh, a place east of the Jordan

1. Elealeh = "God is ascending"
2. a Reubenite village near Heshbon (in ruins)

Usually translated as

Elealeh

Origin

or (more properly) ʼElʻâlêh; from H410 and H5927; God (is) going up

• Derived from ʼêl (H410)
• Derived from ʻâlâh (H5927)

Occurrences

ʼElʻâlêʼ occurs 5 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (2), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1)

• Numbers 32:3 — Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh (וְאֶלְעָלֵ֑ה), and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
• Numbers 32:37 — And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh (אֶלְעָלֵ֑א), and Kirjathaim,
• Isaiah 15:4 — And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh (וְאֶלְעָלֵ֔ה): their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
• Isaiah 16:9 — Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh (וְאֶלְעָלֵ֑ה): for the shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
• Jeremiah 48:34 — From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh (אֶלְעָלֵ֗ה), and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.