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# אָלַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H502

**learn** — used 4 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

learn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/502/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָלַף: vb. learn teach [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/502/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. learn (Arabic أَلِفَ keep, cleave to, become familiar with; Aramaic אֲלַף, ܝܺܠܶܦ, learn, ܐܰܠܶܦ, Pa teach). Impf. 2 ms. תֶּאְלַף אֹרְחֹתָו֯ Pr 22:25; teach, sq. acc. יְאַלֵּף פִּיךָ Jb 15:5 (subj. עֲוֹנְךָ); so Pt. מַלְּפֵנוּ (for מְאַלְּ׳ Sta§ 111, 3 KöI, 388 Ge§ 68 fin., cf. Ew§ 73 b) Jb 35:11; sq. 2 acc. אֲאַלֶּפְךָ חָכְמָה Jb 33:33.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I (1); \[who\] teaches (1); it teaches (1).

## In the verses

[Job 15:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.5/#tree)

כִּ֤י יְאַלֵּ֣ף עֲוֺנְךָ֣ פִ֑יךָ וְ֝תִבְחַ֗ר לְשׁ֣וֹן עֲרוּמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* (dm) it.teaches iniquity your mouth your and you.choose \[the\].tongue of.crafty.\[people\]

*JPS 1917:* For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

[Proverbs 22:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.25/#tree)

פֶּן־תֶּאֱלַ֥ף אֹֽרְחֹתָ֑יו וְלָקַחְתָּ֖ מוֹקֵ֣שׁ לְנַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃

*Word for word:* lest you.should.learn ways his and you.will.take a.snare for self your

*JPS 1917:* Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/502.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/502/): 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).