alila · deed, doing

What it means

alila (עֲלִילָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deed, doing”.

Deed, action: the works of God or of people; sometimes shameful deeds attributed to someone.

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. What someone does, above all his deeds, good or bad, which others can see.
2. Things someone does, or is said to have done, that bring shame.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• deeds ×21
• shameful ×2
• actions ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×9
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×8
• Zephaniah×2

• Deuteronomy 22:14

  and charges her with shameful deeds and brings out against her a bad name, and says, “This woman I took, and I came near to her, and I did not find in her virginity,”

• Deuteronomy 22:17

  and look, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, ‘I did not find in your daughter virginity.’ But these are the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the city.

• 1 Samuel 2:3

  Do not go on speaking so proudly, proudly; let no arrogance come out of your mouth; for an El of knowledge is YHWH, and by him actions are weighed.

• 1 Chronicles 16:8

  “Give thanks to YHWH; call on his name; make known among the peoples his deeds.

• Psalms 9:11

  Sing psalms to YHWH, who dwells in Zion; proclaim among the peoples his deeds.

• Psalms 14:1

  For the director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no Elohim.” They have become corrupt, they have made abominable their deeds; there is no one who does good.

• Psalms 66:5

  Come and see the works of Elohim, awesome in his deeds toward human beings.

• Psalms 77:12

  And I will meditate on all your work, and on your deeds I will reflect.

• Psalms 78:11

  And they forgot his deeds, and his wonders that he had shown them.

• Psalms 99:8

  YHWH our Elohim, you answered them; an El who forgives you were to them, and who takes vengeance on their deeds.

• Psalms 103:7

  He made known his ways to Moses, to the sons of Israel his deeds.

• Psalms 105:1

  Give thanks to YHWH; call on his name; make known among the peoples his deeds.

• Psalms 141:4

  Do not incline my heart to an evil thing, to practice deeds in wickedness with men who work wickedness; and let me not eat of their delicacies.

• Isaiah 12:4

  And you will say on that day, “Give thanks to YHWH; call on his name; make known among the peoples his deeds; make it remembered that his name is set on high.

• Ezekiel 14:22

  And look, there will be left in it survivors brought out, sons and daughters; look, they are coming out to you, and you will see their way and their deeds, and you will be comforted over the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, all that I have brought upon it.

• Ezekiel 14:23

  And they will comfort you when you see their way and their deeds, and you will know that not without cause have I done all that I have done in it, declares Adonai YHWH.’”

• Ezekiel 20:43

  And there you will remember your ways and all your deeds with which you defiled yourselves, and you will feel disgust at yourselves for all your evils that you have done.

• Ezekiel 20:44

  And you will know that I am YHWH when I deal with you for the sake of my name, not according to your evil ways nor according to your corrupt deeds, house of Israel, declares Adonai YHWH.’”

• Ezekiel 21:24

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: “Because you have brought to remembrance your iniquity in that your transgressions are uncovered, so that your sins appear in all your deeds; because you have been remembered, in the palm you will be seized.

• Ezekiel 24:14

  I, YHWH, have spoken; it is coming, and I will do it; I will not refrain, and I will not have pity, and I will not relent; according to your ways and according to your deeds they will judge you, declares Adonai YHWH.’”

• Ezekiel 36:17

  “Son of man, the house of Israel was living on their ground, and they defiled it by their way and by their deeds; like the uncleanness of menstruation was their way before me.

• Ezekiel 36:19

  And I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed through the lands; according to their way and according to their deeds I judged them.

• Zephaniah 3:7

  I said, ‘Surely you will fear me, you will accept correction’; and her dwelling would not be cut off, with all that I charged her; but surely they rose early to corrupt all their deeds.

• Zephaniah 3:11

  On that day you will not be ashamed of all your deeds by which you transgressed against me; for then I will remove from your midst those who exult in your haughtiness, and you will not again exalt yourself on my holy mountain.