Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H5954
עֲלַל
alalal-al'
to come
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻălal
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5954is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5954
to enter; causatively, to introduce
The King James renders it: bring in, come in, go in.
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 come". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Fourteen of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 2:16So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him some time, so that he could give him the interpretation.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him some time, so that he could give him the interpretation.
Daniel 2:16עַ֖ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fourteen of the word's fourteen uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he went in3
- going in2
- he brought in2
- to bring in2
- bring in me1
- he came in1
- he was brought1
- she went in1
- they have been brought1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֲלַע | ala | rib | Uses1 |
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- עַ֣ל2
- הַנְעֵ֥ל1
- הַנְעֵ֣ל1
- הֻעַ֖ל1
- הֻעַ֣לּוּ1
- הַעֵ֙לְנִי֙1
- לְהַנְעָלָ֣ה1
- לְהֶֽעָלָה֙1
- עַ֖ל1
- עַל֩1
- עָלִּ֗ין1
- עָֽלִּ֔ין1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4AVqp3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3AVhp3ms
- preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)2AR/Vhcc
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural2AVqrmpa
- verb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVHp3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1AVhv2ms/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1AVqp3fs
Daniel
fourteen uses
So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him some time, so that he could give him the interpretation.
- עַ֖לʾalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he went in
Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, “Do not execute the wise men of Babylon! Bring me before the king, and I will give him the interpretation.”
- עַ֣לʾalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he went in
- הַעֵ֙לְנִי֙haeleniverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: bring in me
Arioch hastily brought Daniel before the king and said to him, “I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who will tell the king the interpretation.”
- הַנְעֵ֥לhanelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he brought in
So I issued a decree that all the wise men of Babylon be brought before me to interpret the dream for me.
- לְהַנְעָלָ֣הlehanalahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to bring in
When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners came in, I told them the dream, and they could not interpret it for me.
- עָלִּ֗יןalalinverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: going in
But at last, into my presence came Daniel (whose name is Belteshazzar after the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods). And I told him the dream:
- עַל֩ʾalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he came in
The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers, and diviners to be brought in, and he said to these wise men of Babylon, “Whoever reads this inscription and tells me its interpretation will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.”
- לְהֶֽעָלָה֙lehealahpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to bring in
So all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or interpret it for him.
- עָֽלִּ֔יןalalinverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: going in
Hearing the outcry of the king and his nobles, the queen entered the banquet hall. “O king, may you live forever!” she said. “Do not let your thoughts terrify you, or your face grow pale.
- עַלַּ֑תalalatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she went in
So Daniel was brought before the king, who asked him, “Are you Daniel, one of the exiles my father the king brought from Judah?
- הֻעַ֖לhualverb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was brought
Now the wise men and enchanters were brought before me to read this inscription and interpret it for me, but they could not give its interpretation.
- הֻעַ֣לּוּhualuverb · causative passive (hophal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they have been brought
Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
- עַ֣לʾalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he went in
Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from him.
- הַנְעֵ֣לhanelverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he brought in
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.
