Hebrew verb · H5953
עָלַל
alalaw-lal'
to abuse; to glean; to mock; to thrust
20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâlal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5953is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 18spellings
- 4meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5953
to effect thoroughly; specifically, to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal)
The King James renders it: abuse, affect, [idiom] child, defile, do, glean, mock, practise, thoroughly, work (wonderfully).
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
alal is rendered "to abuse; to glean; to mock; to thrust". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Five of the uses stand in Lamentations, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists four meanings for it, beginning with "to abuse".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 10:2and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”
- The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.
The first use
and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”
Exodus 10:2הִתְעַלַּ֙לְתִּי֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's twenty uses are in Lamentations.
What the word means
The word carries four meanings: to abuse, and to glean, and to mock, and to thrust.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to abuseStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereExodus 10:2and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians… |
| to gleanStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| to mockStrong's entry C | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| to thrustStrong's entry D | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and they will deal wantonly3
- you will glean2
- acting like children1
- and deal severely1
- and I have inserted1
- and they abused1
- and they gleaned him1
- have you dealt severely1
- he dealt wantonly1
- I have dealt ruthlessly1
- it has been done1
- it has dealt severely1
and 5 more, 20 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.
All 20, 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
- וְהִתְעַלְּלוּ־3
- הִתְעַלֵּ֣ל1
- הִתְעַלַּ֖לְתְּ1
- הִתְעַלַּ֙לְתִּי֙1
- וַיְעֹֽלְלֻ֙הוּ֙1
- וַיִּֽתְעַלְּלוּ־1
- וְעוֹלֵ֣ל1
- וְעֹלַ֖לְתִּי1
- יְעוֹלְל֥וּ1
- לְהִתְע֘וֹלֵ֤ל1
- מְעוֹלֵ֔ל1
- עוֹלֵ֛ל1
and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vtq3cp3Hc/Vtq3cp
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVpi2ms
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVpp2ms
- Hc/Vpq1cs1Hc/Vpq1cs
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Vpv2ms
- Hc/Vpw3mp/Sp3ms1Hc/Vpw3mp/Sp3ms
- Hc/Vtw3mp1Hc/Vtw3mp
- preposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vtcc
- verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HVpcc
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVpi3mp
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVpp3fs
- verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVPp3ms
Exodus
one use
and that you may tell your children and grandchildren how severely I dealt with the Egyptians when I performed miraculous signs among them, so that all of you may know that I am the LORD.”
- הִתְעַלַּ֙לְתִּי֙hitalaltiverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have dealt ruthlessly
Leviticus
one use
You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.
- תְעוֹלֵ֔לteolelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will glean
Numbers
one use
Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!”
- הִתְעַלַּ֖לְתְּhitalaltverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you have dealt wantonly
Deuteronomy
one use
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
- תְעוֹלֵ֖לteolelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will glean
Judges
two uses
But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.
- וַיִּֽתְעַלְּלוּ־vaiyitalelu-Hc/Vtw3mptagged: and they abused
Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
- וַיְעֹֽלְלֻ֙הוּ֙vayoleluhuHc/Vpw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and they gleaned him
1 Samuel
two uses
Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, did they not send the people on their way as they departed?
- הִתְעַלֵּ֣לhitalelverb · reflexive (hithpael), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he dealt wantonly
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run it through me, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
- וְהִתְעַלְּלוּ־vehitalelu-Hc/Vtq3cptagged: and they will deal wantonly
1 Chronicles
one use
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and run it through me, or these uncircumcised men will come and torture me!” But his armor-bearer was terrified and refused to do it. So Saul took his own sword and fell on it.
- וְהִתְעַלְּלוּ־vehitalelu-Hc/Vtq3cptagged: and they will deal wantonly
Job
one use
I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
- וְעֹלַ֖לְתִּיveolaltiHc/Vpq1cstagged: and I have inserted
Psalms
one use
Do not let my heart be drawn to any evil thing or take part in works of wickedness with men who do iniquity; let me not feast on their delicacies.
- לְהִתְע֘וֹלֵ֤לlehitolelpreposition + verb · reflexive (hithpael), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to practice
Isaiah
one use
Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.
- מְעוֹלֵ֔לmeolelverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: acting like children
Jeremiah
three uses
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”
- עוֹלֵ֛לolelverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: thoroughly glean
- יְעוֹלְל֥וּyeoluverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: people will glean
But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, for the Chaldeans may deliver me into their hands to abuse me.”
- וְהִתְעַלְּלוּ־vehitalelu-Hc/Vtq3cptagged: and they will deal wantonly
Lamentations
five uses
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?
- עוֹלַ֖לolalverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been done
Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.
- וְעוֹלֵ֣לveolelconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and deal severely
- עוֹלַ֛לְתָּolaltaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have dealt severely
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- עוֹלַ֣לְתָּolaltaverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: have you dealt severely
My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
- עֽוֹלְלָ֣הʾolahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has dealt severely
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.