Rib
עֲלַעStrong’s H6763ala (a-la)
Appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ala is the Hebrew word usually translated “side of”, “side its” and “sides of”. It appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;”
Meaning
- Rib
How it's translated
- side of 7
- side its 4
- sides of 4
- the side-chamber 3
- with boards of 3
- and for side of 2
- sides its 2
- side-chambers 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 15
- Ezekiel 7
- 1 Kings 6
- Genesis 2
- 2 Samuel 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 2:22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
- Exodus 25:12And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
- Exodus 25:14And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.
- Exodus 26:20And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
- Exodus 26:26And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,
- Exodus 26:27And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.
Hebrew 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.]
- A bone of animal bodies which forms a part of the frame of the thorax.
- In ship building, a piece of timber which forms or strengthens the side of a ship.
- In botany, the continuation of the petiole along the middle of a leaf, and from which the veins take their rise.
- In cloth, a prominent line or rising, like a rib
All definitions and other forms of “rib”
- Something long, thin and narrow; a strip.
RIB, verb transitive
- To furnish with ribs.
- 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.