Oath
אָלָהStrong’s H0423alah (a-lah)
Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Alah is the Hebrew word usually translated “oath”, “curse” and “from oath my”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.
“Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.”
Meaning
- Oath
- Oath of covenant
- Cursefrom God · from men
- Execration
How it's translated
- an oath 6
- a curse 4
- the curse 3
- from oath my 2
- into a curse 2
- the curses 2
- the oath 2
- oath 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 6
- Ezekiel 5
- Jeremiah 4
- Numbers 3
- Genesis 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
15 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 5:3In contextThen said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.
- Genesis 24:41Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
- Genesis 26:28And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
- Leviticus 5:1And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
- Numbers 5:21Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;
- Numbers 5:23And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
All 32 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אָלָה alah · oath
1) oath 2) oath of covenant 3) curse 3a) from God 3b) from men 4) execration
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “oath” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OATH, noun
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.