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# הָלְאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1973

**out there** — used 16 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

out there [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1973/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הָֽ֫לְאָה: adv. out there, onwards, further [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1973/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (i.e. hā-leʾāh, the final -āh, the ה locale, being toneless), adv. out there, onwards, further (𝔗 הָלָא, always with לְ or מֵ prefixed; Syriac ܠܗܰܠ, ܘܰܠܗܰܠ PS 1009 id.; Arabic هَلَا forward! on! FlKl.Schr. i. 355)— of place Gn 19:9 גֶּשׁ־הָֽלְאָה approach out there! i.e. make way, get back (𝔊 ἀπόστα ἐκεῖ: 𝔙 recede illuc), Nu 17:2 and the fire זְרֵה־הָֽלְאָה scatter yonder; מֵהָֽלְאָה לְ beyond (lit. off the yonder side of; v. מִן 4 c Gn 35:21 Je 22:19 Am 5:27 beyond Damascus: וָהָֽלְאָה attached to an indication of place, to mark direction, 1 S 10:3 and thou shalt pass on מִשָּׁם וָהָֽלְאָה thence and onwards; 20:22 מִמְּךָ וָהָֽלְאָה from thee and onwards i.e. beyond thee (opp. to מִמְּךָ וָהֵ֫נָּה v 21), v 37 Nu 32:19 on the side of Jordan forwards (opp. to ‘on the side of Jordan eastwards’). of time, Lv 22:27 from the 8th day וָהָֽלְאָה and onwards, Nu 15:23 1 S 18:9 מהיום ההוא והלאה from that day and onwards, Ez 39:22; 43:27 Is 18:2, 7. Hence

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: beyond (11); onwards (5).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 22:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.22.19/#tree)

קְבוּרַ֥ת חֲמ֖וֹר יִקָּבֵ֑ר סָח֣וֹב וְהַשְׁלֵ֔ךְ מֵהָ֖לְאָה לְשַׁעֲרֵ֥י יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* \[the\].burial of.a.donkey he.will.be.buried people.will.drag.\[him\] and people.will.throw.\[him\].out from beyond (to).the gates of.Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

[Genesis 35:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.35.21/#tree)

וַיִּסַּ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיֵּ֣ט אָֽהֳלֹ֔המֵהָ֖לְאָה לְמִגְדַּל־עֵֽדֶרמִגְדַּל־עֵֽדֶר׃

*Word for word:* and he.set.out Israel and he.pitched tent his from beyond (to) Migdal Eder

*JPS 1917:* And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond Migdal-eder.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1973.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1973/): 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).