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# עָלֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5929

**leaf** — used 18 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

leaf [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5929/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָלֶה: n.m. leaf, leafage Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5929/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. leaf, leafage (v. עלה Qal 4);—ע׳ Lv 26:36 +; cstr. עֲלֵה Gn 3:7; 8:11; sf. עָלֵהוּ Je 17:8 +; pl. cstr. עֲלֵי Ne 8:15 +; sf. עָלֶהָ Is 1:30;—leaf, leafage, of various trees Gn 3:7; 8:11; Ne 8:15(×5); green Je 17:8, flourishing Pr 11:28; but usually fading Is 1:30; 34:4; 64:5; Je 8:13; Ez 47:12 ψ 1:3; driven leaf Lv 26:36; Jb 13:25; עלה לִתְרוּפָה leaf for healing Ez 47:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: leafage (9); leaves (5); a leaf (1).

## In the verses

[Job 13:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.25/#tree)

הֶעָלֶ֣ה נִדָּ֣ף תַּעֲר֑וֹץ וְאֶת־קַ֖שׁ יָבֵ֣שׁ תִּרְדֹּֽף׃

*Word for word:* a leaf? driven.about will.you.terrify and (et) chaff dry will.you.pursue?

*JPS 1917:* Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble?

[Proverbs 11:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.11.28/#tree)

בּוֹטֵ֣חַ בְּ֭עָשְׁרוֹ ה֣וּא יִפֹּ֑ל וְ֝כֶעָלֶ֗ה צַדִּיקִ֥ים יִפְרָֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[one.who\].trusts in wealth his he he.will.fall and like (the) leaf righteous.\[people\] they.will.bud

*JPS 1917:* He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as foliage.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5929/): 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).