alal · deal harshly, glean

What it means

alal (עָלַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “deal harshly, glean”.

Deal harshly with someone, make him feel one's power. In other passages, glean what is left of the harvest.

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. To treat harshly or mockingly someone who is in our hands.
2. To go over the vineyard or field a second time to gather what was left.
3. To do bad things; to give oneself to wickedness.
4. To thrust something into the dust, as a sign of being brought low.
5. To act as a child; one who rules like a child, without judgment.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• abuse ×3
• glean ×2
• I dealt harshly ×1
• abused ×1
• are children ×1
• deal ×1
• deals harshly ×1
• has been dealt ×1
• have you dealt ×1
• he had dealt harshly ×1
• others ×7

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×5

• Exodus 10:2

  and so that you may tell in the ears of your son and of the son of your son how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians, and my signs that I did among them, and you will know that I am YHWH.”

• Leviticus 19:10

  And your vineyard you shall not strip bare, and the fallen grapes of your vineyard you shall not gather; for the poor and for the resident alien you shall leave them. I am YHWH your Elohim.

• Numbers 22:29

  And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a fool of me! If only there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you!”

• Deuteronomy 24:21

  When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not glean after you; it shall be for the resident alien, for the orphan, and for the widow.

• Judges 19:25

  But the men were not willing to listen to him. So the man took hold of his concubine and brought her out to them outside; and they knew her and abused her all night until the morning, and they let her go as the dawn came up.

• Judges 20:45

  And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the crag of Rimmon; and they gleaned of them on the highways five thousand men, and they pursued closely after him as far as Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.

• 1 Samuel 6:6

  And why should you make your heart insensitive as Egypt and Pharaoh made their heart insensitive? Was it not when he had dealt harshly with them that they let them go, and they went?

• 1 Samuel 31:4

  Saul said to the one who carried his weapons, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and run me through and abuse me.” But the one who carried his weapons was not willing, for he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

• 1 Chronicles 10:4

  And Saul said to the one who carried his weapons, “Draw your sword and run me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me.” But the one who carried his weapons was not willing, for he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it.

• Job 16:15

  Sackcloth I have sewn on my skin, and thrust my horn into the dust.

• 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 3:12

  My people — its oppressors are children, and women rule over it. My people, those who guide you lead you astray, and the way of your paths they have swallowed up.

• Jeremiah 6:9

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: “They will glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn back your hand like a grape gatherer over the branches.”

• Jeremiah 38:19

  And King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am anxious about the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest they give me into their hand and they abuse me.”

• Lamentations 1:12

  “Is it nothing to you, all who pass by on the road? Look and see if there is pain like my pain that has been dealt to me, with which YHWH has afflicted me in the day of his burning anger.

• Lamentations 1:22

  Let all their wickedness come before you, and deal with them as you have dealt with me for all my transgressions; for many are my groans, and my heart is faint.”

• Lamentations 2:20

  See, YHWH, and look: to whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat their fruit, the children raised with care? Should there be killed in the sanctuary of Adonai priest and prophet?

• Lamentations 3:51

  My eye deals harshly with my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

And 2 more times.