אָלָהʼâlâh
oath
Pronunciation: aw-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H423
Meanings
1. oath, in testimony (Leviticus 5:1; Numbers 5:21; Proverbs 29:23)
2. oath, of convenant (Genesis 24:41; Genesis 26:28; Deuteronomy 29:11)
3. curse
4. execration (Numbers 5:27; Jeremiah 29:18; Jeremiah 42:18)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 35 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 24:41 Then you will have fulfilled your obligation. But if you go to my relatives and they refuse to let her go with you, you will be free from my oath.’
- Genesis 26:28 They replied, “We can plainly see that the Lord is with you. So we want to enter into a sworn treaty with you. Let’s make a covenant.
- Leviticus 5:1 “If you are called to testify about something you have seen or that you know about, it is sinful to refuse to testify, and you will be punished for your sin.
- Numbers 5:21 “At this point the priest must put the woman under oath by saying, ‘May the people know that the Lord’s curse is upon you when he makes you infertile, causing your womb to shrivel and your abdomen to swell.
- Numbers 5:23 And the priest will write these curses on a piece of leather and wash them off into the bitter water.
- Numbers 5:27 If she has defiled herself by being unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings on the curse will cause bitter suffering. Her abdomen will swell and her womb will shrink, and her name will become a curse among her people.
See every passage
- Genesis 24:41, 26:28
- Leviticus 5:1
- Numbers 5:21, 5:23, 5:27
- Deuteronomy 29:12, 29:14, 29:19, 29:20, 29:21, 30:7
- 1 Kings 8:31
- 2 Chronicles 6:22, 34:24
- Nehemiah 10:29
- Job 31:30
- Psalms 10:7, 59:12
- Proverbs 29:24
- Isaiah 24:6
- Jeremiah 23:10, 29:18, 42:18, 44:12
- Ezekiel 16:59, 17:13, 17:16, 17:18, 17:19
- Daniel 9:11
- Zechariah 5:3
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).