Wantonness
עֲלִילָהStrong’s H5949alilah (a-li-lah)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Alilah is the Hebrew word usually translated “deeds his”, “practices their” and “practices your”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:”
Meaning
- Wantonness, deed, doingwantonness · deed · practices, evil deeds
How it's translated
- deeds his 6
- practices their 3
- practices your 3
- deeds of 2
- deed 2
- and according to practices your 2
- deeds 1
- and on deeds your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 9
- Ezekiel 8
- Deuteronomy 2
- Zephaniah 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 22:17And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
- 1 Samuel 2:3Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
- 1 Chronicles 16:8Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.
- Psalms 9:11Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.
- Psalms 14:1The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
- Psalms 66:5Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
Hebrew dictionary
עֲלִילָה alilah · wantonness
1) wantonness, deed, doing 1a) wantonness 1b) deed 1c) practices, evil deeds
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wantonness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WANTONNESS, noun
- Sportiveness; gaiety; frolicsomeness; waggery.
- Licentiousness; negligence of restraint.
- Lasciviousness; lewdness. Romans 13:132 Peter 2:18
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.