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title: אֶלְעָלֵה — Elealeh · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֶלְעָלֵה (500), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Elealeh. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֶלְעָלֵה

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«אֶלְעָלֵה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Elealeh** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 500 · **BDB:** אֶלְעָלֵא

### Glosses

Elealeh (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Elealeh [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/500/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/500/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** ‖ אֶלְעָלֵה n.pr.loc. (God doth ascend?) of a village in the tribe of Reuben, near Heshbon, in ruins, el Âl (vid. RbBR ii, 278) Nu 32:3, 37 Is 15:4; 16:9 Je 48:34.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֶלְעָלֵה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/500/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 32:37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.37/)

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וּבְנֵ֤י רְאוּבֵן֙ בָּנ֔וּ אֶת־חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן וְאֶת־אֶלְעָלֵ֑א וְאֵ֖ת קִרְיָתָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and the.descendants of.Reuben they.built (et) Heshbon and (et) Elealeh and (et) Kiriathaim

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim;

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[Numbers 32:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.32.3/)

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עֲטָר֤וֹת וְדִיבֹן֙ וְיַעְזֵ֣ר וְנִמְרָ֔ה וְחֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן וְאֶלְעָלֵ֑ה וּשְׂבָ֥ם וּנְב֖וֹ וּבְעֹֽן׃

*Word for word:* Ataroth and Dibon and Jazer and Nimrah and Heshbon and Elealeh and Sebam and Nebo and Beon

*JPS 1917:* 'Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

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