421. alah
Lexicon
alah: wail

Original Word: אָלָה
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: alah
Pronunciation: ah-LAH
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-law')
KJV: lament
NASB: wail
Word Origin: [a primitive root (rather identical with H422 (אָלָה - take) through the idea of invocation)]

1. to bewail

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
lament

A primitive root (rather identical with 'alah through the idea of invocation); to bewail -- lament.

see HEBREW 'alah

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to wail
NASB Translation
wail (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
III. [אָלָה] verb wail (Aramaic אֲלָא, ) only

Qal Imperative feminine singular אֱלִי Joel 1:8 (see אַלְלַי).

Forms and Transliterations
אֱלִ֕י אלי ’ĕ·lî ’ĕlî eLi
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Englishman's Concordance
Joel 1:8
HEB: אֱלִ֕י כִּבְתוּלָ֥ה חֲגֻֽרַת־
NAS: Wail like a virgin girded
KJV: Lament like a virgin girded
INT: Wail A virgin girded

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 421
1 Occurrence


’ĕ·lî — 1 Occ.

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