ale · leaf

What it means

ale (עָלֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “leaf”.

Foliage.

How to say it

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

1. The green leaf of a tree, which dries and falls, or its foliage.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• leaf ×10
• branches ×5
• leaves ×2
• like foliage ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Leviticus×1
• Nehemiah×5
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×2

• Genesis 3:7

  And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed together fig leaves and made themselves loincloths.

• Genesis 8:11

  And the dove came to him at evening time, and look, a freshly plucked olive leaf was in her mouth; and Noah knew that the waters had decreased from the earth.

• Leviticus 26:36

  And as for those who are left of you, I will bring faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a driven leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one flees from the sword, and fall when no one is pursuing.

• Nehemiah 8:15

  and that they should make it heard and pass a proclamation through all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, and branches of oil tree, and branches of myrtle, and branches of palm, and branches of leafy trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

• Job 13:25

  Will you terrorize a windblown leaf, and pursue dry straw?

• Psalms 1:3

  He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, that gives its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither; and all that he does prospers.

• Proverbs 11:28

  Whoever trusts in his riches, he will fall, but like foliage the righteous will flourish.

• Isaiah 1:30

  For you will be like a terebinth whose leaves wither, and like a garden that has no water.

• Isaiah 34:4

  And all the army of the heavens will dissolve, and the heavens will be rolled up like a book, and all their army will fade as a leaf fades from the vine, and as what fades from the fig tree.

• Isaiah 64:6

  And we have become like the unclean, all of us, and like a garment of menstruation all our acts of righteousness; and we wither like the leaf, all of us, and our iniquities like the wind carry us away.

• Jeremiah 8:13

  I will gather them in completely, declares YHWH. There are no grapes on the vine, and no figs on the fig tree, and the leaf withers; and what I gave them will pass away from them.’”

• Jeremiah 17:8

  And he will be like a tree planted by the waters, and by the stream it sends out its roots; and it will not see when heat comes, and its leaf will be flourishing; and in the year of drought it will not be anxious, nor cease from bearing fruit.

• Ezekiel 47:12

  And by the torrent will grow up, on its bank, on one side and on the other, every tree for food; its leaf will not wither, nor will its fruit fail; every month it will bear new fruit, for its water goes out from the sanctuary; and its fruit will be for food, and its leaf for medicine.”

And 5 more times.