Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5929
עָלֶה
alehaw-leh'
leaf
18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâleh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5929is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 18spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5929
a leaf (as coming up on a tree); collectively, foliage
The King James renders it: branch, leaf.
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
aleh is rendered "leaf". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Five of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 3:7And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
- The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.
The first use
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
Genesis 3:7עֲלֵ֣ה
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 leaves of4
- and leafage its2
- leafage its2
- ¿ a leaf1
- a leaf1
- a leaf of1
- and like the leaf1
- and the leafage1
- leafage1
- leafage of1
- leaves of1
- like the leafage1
and 1 more, 18 uses in all
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.
The words it stands beside
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
18 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
- הֶעָלֶ֣ה1
- וְהֶֽעָלֶה֙1
- וְ֝כֶעָלֶ֗ה1
- וְעָלֵ֥הוּ1
- וְעָלֵ֖הוּ1
- וַעֲלֵ֤י1
- וַעֲלֵ֣י1
- וַעֲלֵ֖י1
- וַעֲלֵי־1
- כֶּֽעָלֶה֙1
- עֲלֵ֣ה1
- עָלֶ֣ה1
and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)4HC/Ncmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HC/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3fs
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
- question particle + noun · masculine singular1HTi/Ncmsa
Genesis
two uses
And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; so they sewed together fig leaves and made coverings for themselves.
- עֲלֵ֣הʾalehnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: leafage of
And behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.
- עֲלֵה־ʾaleh-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a leaf of
Leviticus
one use
As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.
- עָלֶ֣הʾalehnoun · masculine singulartagged: a leaf
Nehemiah
five uses
So they proclaimed this message and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”
- עֲלֵי־ʾalei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: leaves of
- וַעֲלֵי־vaalei-conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and leaves of
- וַעֲלֵ֤יvaaleiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and leaves of
- וַעֲלֵ֣יvaaleiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and leaves of
- וַעֲלֵ֖יvaaleiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and leaves of
Job
one use
Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
- הֶעָלֶ֣הhealehquestion particle + noun · masculine singulartagged: ¿ a leaf
Psalms
one use
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
- וְעָלֵ֥הוּvealehuconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and leafage its
Proverbs
one use
He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.
- וְ֝כֶעָלֶ֗הvekhealehconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like the leaf
Isaiah
three uses
For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.
- עָלֶ֑הָʾalehanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: of leafage its
All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
- עָלֶה֙ʾalehnoun · masculine singulartagged: leafage
Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
- כֶּֽעָלֶה֙kealehpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the leafage
Jeremiah
two uses
I will take away their harvest, declares the LORD. There will be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the tree, and even the leaf will wither. Whatever I have given them will be lost to them.”
- וְהֶֽעָלֶה֙vehealehconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the leafage
He is like a tree planted by the waters that sends out its roots toward the stream. It does not fear when the heat comes, and its leaves are always green. It does not worry in a year of drought, nor does it cease to produce fruit.
- עָלֵ֖הוּʾalehunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: leafage its
Ezekiel
two uses
Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”
- עָלֵ֜הוּʾalehunoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: leafage its
- וְעָלֵ֖הוּvealehuconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and leafage its
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.