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title: אָלָה — wail · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָלָה (421), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: wail. BDB 1906: vb. wail. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָלָה

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«אָלָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **wail** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 421 · **BDB:** אָלָה³

### Glosses

wail (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

wail [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/421/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. wail [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/421/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. wail (Aramaic אֲלָא, ܐܶܠܴܐ ) only Imv. fs. אֱלִי Jo 1:8 (v. אַלְלַי).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָלָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/421/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joel 1:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.8/)

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אֱלִ֕י כִּבְתוּלָ֥ה חֲגֻֽרַת־שַׂ֖ק עַל־בַּ֥עַל נְעוּרֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* wail like a.virgin girded of.sackcloth on the.husband her.youth(s) her

*JPS 1917:* Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

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