Hebrew noun (feminine) · H5939
עֲלָטָה
alatahal-aw-taw'
darkness
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻălâṭâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5939is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5939
dusk
The King James renders it: dark, twilight.
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
alatah is rendered "darkness". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 15:17When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
Genesis 15:17וַעֲלָטָ֖ה
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
- in the darkness3
- and darkness1
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.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- בָּעֲלָטָ֣ה2
- בָּעֲלָטָ֥ה1
- וַעֲלָטָ֖ה1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular3HRd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
Genesis
one use
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
- וַעֲלָטָ֖הvaalatahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and darkness
Ezekiel
three uses
And as they watch, lift your bags to your shoulder and take them out at dusk; cover your face so that you cannot see the land. For I have made you a sign to the house of Israel.”
- בָּעֲלָטָ֣הbaalatahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the darkness
So I did as I was commanded. I brought out my bags for exile by day, and in the evening I dug through the wall by hand. I took my belongings out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulder as they watched.
- בָּעֲלָטָ֥הbaalatahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the darkness
And at dusk the prince among them will lift his bags to his shoulder and go out. They will dig through the wall to bring him out. He will cover his face so he cannot see the land.
- בָּעֲלָטָ֣הbaalatahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: in the darkness
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.