hala · beyond, away

What it means

hala (הָלְאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “beyond, away”.

Beyond, farther away; "stand back!"; of time, onward.

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. Points to a place farther off than where one is.
2. From a certain moment on into the future.
3. An order for someone to get out of the way.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• beyond ×6
• onward ×5
• on ×2
• aside ×1
• far away ×1
• farther ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×3
• 1 Samuel×4
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Amos×1

• Genesis 19:9

  But they said, “Step aside!” And they said, “This one came to reside as an alien, and he keeps acting as judge! Now we will do worse to you than to them.” And they pressed hard against the man, against Lot, and came near to break the door.

• Genesis 35:21

  Israel set out and pitched his tent beyond Migdal-eder.

• Leviticus 22:27

  “When a calf or a lamb or a kid is born, it shall be seven days under its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be accepted as a fire offering to YHWH.

• Numbers 15:23

  all that YHWH has commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that YHWH commanded and onward throughout your generations,

• Numbers 16:37

  “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers from among the burning, and scatter the fire far away, for they have become holy,

• Numbers 32:19

  For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan, to the east.”

• 1 Samuel 10:3

  Then you will go on from there farther and come to the oak of Tabor, and there three men going up to Elohim at Bethel will find you, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three round loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.

• 1 Samuel 18:9

  And Saul was looking askance at David from that day on.

• 1 Samuel 20:22

  But if I say this to the youth, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ go, for YHWH has sent you away.

• 1 Samuel 20:37

  The boy came as far as the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, and Jonathan called after the boy and said, “Is not the arrow beyond you?”

• Isaiah 18:2

  which sends envoys by the sea, and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared from that time and onward, a nation of strength, strength, and of trampling, whose land the rivers divide.

• Isaiah 18:7

  At that time tribute will be brought to YHWH Tsevaot, a people tall and smooth-skinned, and from a people feared from that time and onward, a nation of strength, strength, and of trampling, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of YHWH Tsevaot, Mount Zion.

• Jeremiah 22:19

  With the burial of a donkey he will be buried, dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

• Ezekiel 39:22

  And the house of Israel will know that I am YHWH their Elohim, from that day and onward.

• Ezekiel 43:27

  And when they have completed the days, it shall be that on the eighth day and onward, the priests shall offer on the altar your burnt offerings and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, declares Adonai YHWH.”

• Amos 5:27

  And I will send you into exile beyond Damascus, says YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot is his name.