What is the Strong's number for Alal?

The Strong's number for Alal (עָלַל) is H5953. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Alal (Strong’s H5953): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Alal mean?

Alal (עָלַל, Strong's H5953) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to effect thoroughly; specifically, to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal). The King James Bible translates it as abuse, affect, × child, defile, do, glean, mock, practise, thoroughly, work (wonderfully).

Alal (עָלַל) is the Hebrew word numbered H5953 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to effect thoroughly; specifically, to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal). In the King James Bible it is translated abuse, affect, defile, do, glean.

עָלַל

ʻâlal · Hebrew

Strong’s H5953 · aw-lal'

Original wordעָלַל
Transliterationʻâlal
Pronunciationaw-lal'
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH5953
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

to effect thoroughly; specifically, to glean (also figuratively); by implication (in a bad sense) to overdo, i.e. maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose (also literal)

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

abuse, affect, × child, defile, do, glean, mock, practise, thoroughly, work (wonderfully). (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Alal appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Alal (H5953) stands behind 20 English renderings in 18 verses across 12 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Lamentations (5), Jeremiah (3), Judges (2).

How the King James Bible renders Alal, by count

done3 of 20 (15 percent)
glean3 of 20 (15 percent)
abuse2 of 20 (10 percent)
abused1 of 20 (5 percent)
affecteth1 of 20 (5 percent)
children1 of 20 (5 percent)

Three places to read Alal

Exodus 10:2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.
1 Samuel 6:6 Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?
Jeremiah 6:9 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine: turn back thine hand as a grapegatherer into the baskets.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Alal in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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