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# אָלַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H444

**be corrupt** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be corrupt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/444/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָלַח: vb. be corrupt [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/444/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. only be corrupt morally; tainted (Che ψ 14:3) (cf. Arabic أَلَخَ viii. be confused (of a thing), of milk, turn sour) Pf. 3 pl. נֶאֱלָ֑חוּ ψ 14:3; 53:4; Pt. נֶאֱלָח a corrupt man Jb 15:16.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they are corrupt (2); \[one who is\] corrupt (1).

## In the verses

[Job 15:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.16/#tree)

אַ֭ף כִּֽי־נִתְעָ֥ב וְֽנֶאֱלָ֑ח אִישׁ־שֹׁתֶ֖ה כַמַּ֣יִם עַוְלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* indeed? (dm) \[one.who.is\].abhorrent and \[one.who.is\].corrupt a.person \[who\].drinks like (the) water unrighteousness

*JPS 1917:* How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!

[Psalms 14:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.14.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.14.3/#tree)

הַכֹּ֥ל סָר֮ יַחְדָּ֪ו נֶ֫אֱלָ֥חוּ אֵ֤ין עֹֽשֵׂה־ט֑וֹב אֵ֝֗ין גַּם־אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* (the) everyone he.turns.aside all.together they.are.corrupt there.\[is\].not \[one.who\].does (of).good there.\[is\].not also one

*JPS 1917:* They are all corrupt, they are together become impure; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/444.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/444/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).