To suck
עָלַעStrong’s H5966ala (a-la)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Ala is the Hebrew word usually translated “drink”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.”
Meaning
- To suck up (meaning uncertain)(Piel) to drink
How it's translated
- they drink 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
עָלַע ala · to suck
1) to suck up (meaning uncertain) 1a) (Piel) to drink
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “suck” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SUCK, verb transitive
[Latin sugo.]
- To draw with the mouth; to draw out, as a liquid from a cask, or milk from the breast; to draw into the mouth.
- To draw milk from with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother or dam, or the breast.
- To draw into the mouth; to imbibe; as, to suck in air; to suck the juice of plants.
- To draw or drain.
All definitions and other forms of “suck”
- To draw in, as a whirlpool; to absorb.
- To inhale.
SUCK, verb intransitive
To draw by exhausting the air, as with the mouth, or with a tube.
- To draw the breast; as, a child, or the young of any animal, is first nourished by sucking.
- To draw in; to imbibe.
SUCK, noun
The act of drawing with the mouth.
- Milk drawn from the breast by the mouth.
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.