Hebrew verb · H502
אָלַף
alaphaw-lof'
to teach/learn
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼâlaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H502is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H502
hence, to learn (and causatively to teach)
The King James renders it: learn, teach, utter.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
alaph is rendered "to teach/learn". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 15:5For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Job 15:5יְאַלֵּ֣ף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and I will teach you1
- it teaches1
- teaches us1
- you should learn1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אָלַם | alam | be dumb | Uses9 |
| אָלַח | alach | to corrupt | Uses3 |
| אָלַף | alaph | to produce thousands | Uses1 |
| אָלַץ | alats | to urge | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַאֲאַלֶּפְךָ֥1
- יְאַלֵּ֣ף1
- מַ֭לְּפֵנוּ1
- תֶּאֱלַ֥ף1
The grammar of each form
- HC/Vpu1cs/Sp2ms1HC/Vpu1cs/Sp2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVpi3ms
- verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HVprmsc/Sp1bp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqi2ms
Job
three uses
For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- יְאַלֵּ֣ףyealefverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it teaches
But if not, then listen to me; be quiet, and I will teach you wisdom.”
- וַאֲאַלֶּפְךָ֥vaaalefkhaHC/Vpu1cs/Sp2mstagged: and I will teach you
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
- מַ֭לְּפֵנוּmalefenuverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: teaches us
Proverbs
one use
or you may learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
- תֶּאֱלַ֥ףteelafverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you should learn
The letters
Gematria 111· 831 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.