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# עַלְוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5933

**Aliah** — used 2 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

Aliah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5933/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עַלְוָה²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5933/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. in Edom Gn 36:40 (P) = 1 Ch 1:51 Qr (Kt עליה), 𝔊 Γωλα; 𝔊LChr Αλουα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Alvah (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 1:51](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.51/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.51/#tree)

וַיָּ֖מָת הֲדָ֑דס וַיִּהְיוּ֙ אַלּוּפֵ֣י אֱד֔וֹם אַלּ֥וּף תִּמְנָ֛ע אַלּ֥וּף עַֽלְוָ֖ה אַלּ֥וּף יְתֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* and he.died Hadad and they.were the.chiefs of.Edom chief Timna chief Alvah chief Jetheth

*JPS 1917:* And Hadad died. And the chiefs of Edom were: the chief of Timna, the chief of Alvah, the chief of Jetheth;

[Genesis 36:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.36.40/#tree)

וְ֠אֵלֶּה שְׁמ֞וֹת אַלּוּפֵ֤י עֵשָׂו֙ לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֔ם לִמְקֹמֹתָ֖ם בִּשְׁמֹתָ֑ם אַלּ֥וּף תִּמְנָ֛ע אַלּ֥וּף עַֽלְוָ֖ה אַלּ֥וּף יְתֵֽת׃

*Word for word:* and these \[were\].the.names of.the.chiefs of.Esau to clans their to places their by names their chief Timna chief Alvah chief Jetheth

*JPS 1917:* And these are the names of the chiefs that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names: the chief of Timna, the chief of Alvah, the chief of Jetheth;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5933.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5933/): 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).