H422 אלה - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon Number


אלה
'âlâh
aw-law'
A primitive root; properly to adjure, that is, (usually in a bad sense) imprecate

KJV Usage: adjure, curse, swear.


Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions

BDB471

אלה

1. to swear, curse
a. (Qal)
1. to swear, take an oath (before God)
2. to curse
b. (Hiphil)
1. to put under oath, adjure
2. to put under a curse
Origin: a primitive root
TWOT: 94
Parts of Speech: Verb

TBESH:
אָלָה
a.lah
H:V
to swear
1) to swear, curse
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to swear, take an oath (before God)
1a2) to curse
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to put under oath, adjure
1b2) to put under a curse

View how H422 אלה is used in the Bible

6 occurrences of H422 אלה

Judges 17:2 from thee, about which thou didst adjure,
1 Samuel 14:24 had adjured
1 Kings 8:31 upon him to cause him to swear,
2 Chronicles 6:22 upon him to make him swear,
Hosea 4:2 By swearing,
Hosea 10:4 swearing

Distinct usage

1 By swearing,
1 upon him to make him swear,
1 from thee, about which thou didst adjure,
1 had adjured
1 upon him to cause him to swear,
1 swearing


Related words

H422

H421 אלה 'âlâh
אלה
'âlâh
aw-law'
A primitive root (rather identical with H422 through the idea of invocation); to bewail

KJV Usage: lament.


H423 אלה 'âlâh
אלה
'âlâh
aw-law'
From H422; an imprecation

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


H451 אליה 'alyâh
אליה
'alyâh
al-yaw'
From H422 (in the original sense of strength); the stout part, that is, the fat tail of the Oriental sheep

KJV Usage: rump.


H8381 תּאלה ta'ălâh
תּאלה
ta'ălâh
tah-al-aw'
From H422; an imprecation

KJV Usage: curse.