# אָלָה (alah)

Israeli respelling: a-lah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H423. 32 Old Testament occurrences.

an imprecation

King James renderings: curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/alah-h423

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 24:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/41) — Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
- [Genesis 26:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/28) — And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, an…
- [Leviticus 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/5/1) — And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he sh…
- [Numbers 5:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/5/21) — Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an…
- [Numbers 5:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/5/23) — And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:
- [Numbers 5:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/5/27) — And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husba…
- [Deuteronomy 29:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/12) — That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
- [Deuteronomy 29:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/14) — Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
- [Deuteronomy 29:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/19) — And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk…
- [Deuteronomy 29:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/20) — The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are writ…
- [Deuteronomy 29:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/21) — And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in…
- [Deuteronomy 30:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/30/7) — And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
- [1 Kings 8:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/31) — If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this…
- [2 Chronicles 6:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/6/22) — If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
- [2 Chronicles 34:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/34/24) — Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in t…
- [Nehemiah 10:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/10/29) — They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the…
- [Job 31:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/30) — Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
- [Psalms 10:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/7) — His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- [Psalms 59:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/59/12) — For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
- [Proverbs 29:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/24) — Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
- [Isaiah 24:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/24/6) — Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, a…
- [Jeremiah 23:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/23/10) — For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and thei…
- [Jeremiah 29:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/29/18) — And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms…
- [Jeremiah 42:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/42/18) — For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so…
- [Jeremiah 44:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/44/12) — And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consum…
- [Ezekiel 16:59](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/59) — For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
- [Ezekiel 17:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/13) — And hath taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:
- [Ezekiel 17:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/16) — As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant h…
- [Ezekiel 17:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/18) — Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.
- [Ezekiel 17:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/17/19) — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant that he hath broken, even it will I r…
- [Daniel 9:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/11) — Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, an…
- [Zechariah 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/5/3) — Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off as…