Hebrew and Greek words › Hebrew › H5929
עָלֶה aleh
Hebrew word for “leaf” · Strong’s H5929 · used 18 times in 13 verses
Meaning
leaf, leafage
How it is translated
Glosses given for aleh in context, with how often each is used:
- leafage 8
- leaves 5
- leaf 2
- ¿ a leaf 1
- like leaf 1
- like leafage 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nehemiah | 5 | 0.9 | |
| Isaiah | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Genesis | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Leviticus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Proverbs | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Genesis 3 (1), Genesis 8 (1), Leviticus 26 (1), Nehemiah 8 (1), Job 13 (1), Psalms 1 (1), Proverbs 11 (1), Isaiah 1 (1), Isaiah 34 (1), Isaiah 64 (1)
Forms
- עלה 5
- ועלי 4
- ועלהו 2
- עלהו 2
- עלי 1
- העלה 1
- וכעלה 1
- כעלה 1
- והעלה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with aleh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- נָבֵל navel “to wither” 6
- תְּאֵנָה teenah “fig” 3
- מַי mayim “water” 5
- עֵץ ets “tree” 4
- פְּרִי peri “fruit” 3
- נָדַף nadaph “to drive” 2
- שָׁתַל shatal “to transplant” 2
- זַיִת zayit “olive” 2
- גֶּפֶן gephen “vine” 2
- אַיִן ayin “nothing” 3
- רָדַף radaph “to pursue” 2
- עֵת et “time” 2
Key verses
The verses using aleh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 3:7 — And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- Leviticus 26:36 — And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase…
- Nehemiah 8:15 — And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches,…
- Job 13:25 — Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
- Psalms 1:3 — And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he…
- Proverbs 11:28 — He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
- Isaiah 1:30 — For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
- Isaiah 34:4 — And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth…
- Isaiah 64:6 — But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken…
- Jeremiah 8:13 — I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have…
- Jeremiah 17:8 — For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be…
- Ezekiel 47:12 — And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit…
See all 13 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.