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Exultant

עָלֵזStrong’s H5938

alez (a-lez)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Alez is the Hebrew word usually translated “exulting”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.”
Isaiah 5:14 KJV
Meaning
  1. Exultant, jubilant
How it's translated
  • and exulting 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 1

1 book in all.

Related words
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    Hebrew dictionary

    עָלֵז alez · exultant

    exultant, jubilant

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “exultant” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    EXULT'ANT, adjective

    Rejoicing triumphantly.

      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.