Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
leaf
Usage: leaf, leafage
Aleh means “leaf” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H5929 עָלֶה (`aleh) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `aleh (aw-leh') n-m. 1. a leaf (as coming up on a tree) 2. collectively, foliage It has 13 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include leaf, branches, and branch. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`aleh (aw-leh') n-m. 1. a leaf (as coming up on a tree) 2. collectively, foliage [from H5927] KJV: branch, leaf. Root(s): H5927
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leaf
Usage: leaf, leafage
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `aleh, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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13 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
First 13 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5929.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5929, grouped by book.
Aleh (Strong's H5929) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "leaf". `aleh (aw-leh') n-m. 1. a leaf (as coming up on a tree) 2. collectively, foliage
This page currently indexes 13 linked usages for Strong's H5929 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5929 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as leaf, branches, and branch. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.