Further
הָֽ֫לְאָהStrong’s H1973haleah (ha-le-ah)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Haleah is the Hebrew word usually translated “beyond”, “onwards” and “from beyond”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.”
Meaning
- Out there, onwards, furtheryonder, beyond (of place) · onwards (of time)
How it's translated
- and beyond 6
- and onwards 5
- from beyond 3
- beyond 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 4
- Numbers 3
- Genesis 2
- Isaiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Leviticus 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 35:21And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
- Leviticus 22:27When a bullock, or a sheep, or a goat, is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Numbers 15:23Even all that the LORD hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the LORD commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;
- Numbers 16:37Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
- Numbers 32:19For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
- 1 Samuel 10:3Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:
Hebrew dictionary
הָֽ֫לְאָה haleah · further
1) out there, onwards, further 1a) yonder, beyond (of place) 1b) onwards (of time)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “further” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FUR'THER, adjective
- More or most distant; as the further end of the field.
- Additional.“What further need have we of witnesses?” Matthew 26:65
All definitions and other forms of “further”
FUR'THER, adverb
To a greater distance. He went further
FUR'THER, verb transitive
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.