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# עַלְוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5932

**injustice** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

injustice [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5932/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** transp. from עַוְלָה (q.v.) Ho 10:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (12 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: of injustice (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 10:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.10.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.10.9/#tree)

מִימֵי֙ הַגִּבְעָ֔ה חָטָ֖אתָ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל שָׁ֣ם עָמָ֔דוּ לֹֽא־תַשִּׂיגֵ֧ם בַּגִּבְעָ֛ה מִלְחָמָ֖ה עַל־בְּנֵ֥י עַֽלְוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* since the.days of.(the) Gibeah you.have.sinned O.Israel there they.have.remained not will it.overtake.them? in (the) Gibeah war on sons of.injustice

*JPS 1917:* From the days of Gibeah thou hast sinned, O Israel; there they stood; no battle was to overtake them in Gibeah, nor the children of arrogancy.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5932/): 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).