Pretext
עִלָּהStrong’s H5931illah (il-lah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Illah is the Aramaic word usually translated “occasion”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.”
Meaning
- Matter, affair, occasion
How it's translated
- occasion 2
- an occasion 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
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Aramaic dictionary
עִלָּה illah · pretext
matter, affair, occasion Aramaic of a.lah (עָלָה ": rise" H5927)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “occasion” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OCCA'SION, noun
s as z. [Latin occasio, from oceido, to fall; ob and cado.]
- Properly, a falling, happening or coming to; an occurrence, casualty, incident; something distinct from the ordinary course or regular orders of things.
- Opportunity; convenience; favorable time, season or circumstances.“Use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh” Galatians 5:13“Sin taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me” Romans 7:11
- Accidental cause; incident, event or fact giving rise to something else.
- Incidental need; casual exigency; opportunity accompanied with need or demand.
All definitions and other forms of “occasion”
OCCA'SION, verb transitive
- To cause incidentally; to cause; to produce.
- To influence; to cause.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.