To wail
אָלָהStrong’s H0421alah (a-lah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Alah is the Hebrew word usually translated “wail”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to lament, wail
How it's translated
- wail 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אָלָה alah · to wail
(Qal) to lament, wail
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wail” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WAIL, verb transitive
To lament; to moan; to bewail.
All definitions and other forms of “wail”
WAIL, verb intransitive
To weep; to express sorrow audibly.
- “Therefore I will wail and howl” Micah 1:8
WAIL, noun
Loud weeping; violent lamentation.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.