Leaf
עָלֶהStrong’s H5929aleh (a-leh)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aleh is the Hebrew word usually translated “leaves of”, “leafage its” and “leaf”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”
Meaning
- Leaf, leafage
How it's translated
- and leaves of 4
- leafage its 3
- a leaf 2
- and leafage its 2
- leafage of 1
- a leaf of 1
- leaves of 1
- and like leaf 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 3
- Genesis 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Leviticus 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Job 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 8:11And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
- Leviticus 26:36And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
- Nehemiah 8:15And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
- Job 13:25Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
- Psalms 1:3And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
- Proverbs 11:28He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
Hebrew dictionary
עָלֶה aleh · leaf
leaf, leafage
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “leaf” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LEAF, noun
plural leaves.
- In botany, leaves are organs of perspiration and inhalation in plants.
- The thin, extended part of a flower; a petal.
- A part of a book containing two pages.
- The side of a double door.
All definitions and other forms of “leaf”
- Something resembling a leaf in thinness and extension; a very thin plate; as gold leaf
- The movable side of a table.
LEAF, verb intransitive
To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves. The trees leaf in May.
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.