TBESH · H0423
אָלָה · a.lah · oath
1) oath 2) oath of covenant 3) curse 3a) from God 3b) from men 4) execration
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a.lah H423
אָלָה (a.lah) means “oath” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
אָלָה Hebrew · H423 35 tagged occurrences in 32 verses
Pronunciation guide: aw-law' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
from H422 (אָלָה); an imprecation
KJV glosses: curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.
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How translators render H423
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| oath | 4 |
| the oath | 3 |
| to take an oath | 3 |
| a curse | 2 |
| an object of cursing | 2 |
| curses | 2 |
| the curses | 2 |
| accursed | 1 |
| an attested | 1 |
| an oath | 1 |
| and into his oath | 1 |
| charge | 1 |
| curse | 1 |
| cursing | 1 |
| from my oath | 1 |
| in the curses | 1 |
| is the curse | 1 |
| my oath | 1 |
| of the curse | 1 |
| so the oath | 1 |
| the curse | 1 |
| under oath | 1 |
| with a curse | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and an oath | 2 |
| and the oath | 2 |
| of cursing | 2 |
| of swearing | 2 |
| the oath | 2 |
| a curse | 1 |
| according to all the curses | 1 |
| all the curses | 1 |
| all these curses | 1 |
| an oath | 1 |
| and all the curses | 1 |
| and for cursing | 1 |
| and into his oath | 1 |
| and they shall be an execration | 1 |
| and this oath | 1 |
| and ye shall be an execration | 1 |
| cursing | 1 |
| from my oath | 1 |
| into a curse | 1 |
| let there be now an oath | 1 |
| my oath | 1 |
| of this curse | 1 |
| shall be a curse | 1 |
| surely mine oath | 1 |
| the curse | 1 |
| thee a curse | 1 |
| therefore hath the curse | 1 |
| therefore the curse | 1 |
| these curses | 1 |
| to be a curse | 1 |
| whose oath | 1 |
Verses containing H423
Page 1 of 1. 32 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 24:41
· BSB · 2 occurrences
And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’
Read word by word - Genesis 26:28
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you
Read word by word - Leviticus 5:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.
Read word by word - Numbers 5:21
· BSB · 2 occurrences
and the priest shall have the woman swear under the oath of the curse—‘then may the LORD make you an attested curse among your people by making your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.
Read word by word - Numbers 5:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.
Read word by word - Numbers 5:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 29:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 29.11
- Deuteronomy 29:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 29.13
- Deuteronomy 29:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 29.18
- Deuteronomy 29:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 29.19
- Deuteronomy 29:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
and single him out from all the tribes of Israel for disaster, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this Book of the Law.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 29.20
- Deuteronomy 30:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.
Read word by word - 1 Kings 8:31
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 6:22
· BSB · 2 occurrences
When a man sins against his neighbor and is required to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before Your altar in this temple,
Read word by word - 2 Chronicles 34:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah,
Read word by word - Nehemiah 10:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to obey carefully all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 10.30
- Job 31:30
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I have not allowed my mouth to sin by asking for his life with a curse—
Read word by word - Psalms 10:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
Read word by word - Psalms 59:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 59.13
- Proverbs 29:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
A partner to a thief hates his own soul; he receives the oath but does not testify.
Read word by word - Isaiah 24:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 23:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 29:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 42:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’
Read word by word - Jeremiah 44:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 16:59
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 17:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,
Read word by word - Ezekiel 17:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
‘As surely as I live,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘he will die in Babylon, in the land of the king who enthroned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke.
Read word by word - Ezekiel 17:18
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Seeing that he gave his hand in pledge yet did all these things, he will not escape!’
Read word by word - Ezekiel 17:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.
Read word by word - Daniel 9:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.
Read word by word - Zechariah 5:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.
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