Strong's #422: 'alah (pronounced aw-law')

a primitive root; properly, to adjure, i.e. (usually in a bad sense) imprecate:--adjure, curse, swear.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'âlâh

1) to swear, curse

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to swear, take an oath (before God)

1a2) to curse

1b) (Hiphil)

1b1) to put under oath, adjure

1b2) to put under a curse

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

 

Judges 17:2: "shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears,"
1 Samuel 14:24: "that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed"
1 Kings 8:31: "against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar"
1 Kings 8:31: "and an oath be laid and the oath come before thine altar in this"
2 Chronicles 6:22: "against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, come before thine altar"
Hosea 4:2: " By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood"
Hosea 10:4: "They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment"