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Rib

עֲלַעStrong’s H5967

ala (a-la)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Ala is the Aramaic word usually translated “ribs”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.”
Daniel 7:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. Rib
How it's translated
  • ribs 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Daniel 1

1 book in all.

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    Aramaic dictionary

    עֲלַע ala · rib

    rib Aramaic of tse.la (צֵלָע "side" H6763)

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    RIB, noun

    [Latin costa, signifies side, border, extremity.]

    1. A bone of animal bodies which forms a part of the frame of the thorax.
    2. In ship building, a piece of timber which forms or strengthens the side of a ship.
    3. In botany, the continuation of the petiole along the middle of a leaf, and from which the veins take their rise.
    4. In cloth, a prominent line or rising, like a rib
    All definitions and other forms of “rib”
    1. Something long, thin and narrow; a strip.

    RIB, verb transitive

    1. To furnish with ribs.
    2. To inclose with ribs.

    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.