Strong's #423: 'alah (pronounced aw-law')

from 422; an imprecation:--curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'âlâh

1) oath

2) oath of covenant

3) curse

3a) from God

3b) from men

4) execration

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H422

Usage:

This word is used 35 times:

 

Genesis 24:41: "Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred;"
Genesis 24:41: "they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath. from my oath."
Genesis 26:28: "with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath between us, even between us and thee, and let us make"
Leviticus 5:1: "and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or"
Numbers 5:21: "the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD"
Numbers 5:21: "unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD"
Numbers 5:23: "shall write curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter"
Numbers 5:27: "shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people."
Deuteronomy 29:12: "into covenant thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh"
Deuteronomy 29:14: "this covenant and this oath;"
Deuteronomy 29:19: "the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have"
Deuteronomy 29:20: "against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie"
Deuteronomy 29:21: "out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this"
Deuteronomy 30:7: "all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate"
1 Kings 8:31: "trespass against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come"
2 Chronicles 6:22: "and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this"
2 Chronicles 6:22: "a man against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come"
2 Chronicles 34:24: "the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which"
Nehemiah 10:29: "their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law,"
Job 31:30: "to sin by wishing a curse to his soul."
Psalms 10:7: "His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief"
Psalms 59:12: "of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and for cursing and lying which they speak."
Proverbs 29:24: "hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and betrayeth it not."
Isaiah 24:6: "Therefore hath the curse the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore"
Jeremiah 23:10: "of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places"
Jeremiah 29:18: "them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach,"
Jeremiah 42:18: "you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see"
Jeremiah 44:12: "the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach."
Ezekiel 16:59: "thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant."
Ezekiel 17:13: "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: "where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose"
Ezekiel 17:18: "Seeing he despised the oath the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done"
Ezekiel 17:19: "As I live, surely mine oath that he hath despised, and my covenant"
Daniel 9:11: "that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that"
Zechariah 5:3: "Then said he unto is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole"