אָלַח
alach · become corrupt
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H444 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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alach (אָלַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “become corrupt”.
To be corrupted, to go bad morally, like something that turns sour or muddy.
How to say it
a·lach
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To become wholly corrupt, until no good is done.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- they have become perverted ×2
- corrupt ×1
Where it appears
- Job 15:16
how much less one abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water.
- Psalms 14:3
All have turned aside, together they have become perverted; there is no one who does good, there is not even one.
- Psalms 53:3
All of them have turned back; together they have become perverted; there is no one who does good, there is not even one.