Lexical Summary alatah: thick darkness Original Word: עֲלָטָהTransliteration: alatah Phonetic Spelling: (al-aw-taw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: thick darkness Meaning: thick darkness Strong's Concordance dark, twilight Feminine from an unused root meaning to cover; dusk -- dark, twilight. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5939. alatah עֲלָטָה noun feminine thick darkness **< darkness, dusk, which suits both passages (Bevan, privately). (Late Hebrew עֲלָטָה (rare); according to BaES 5 transposes from Arabic [be cloudy]; darkness); — absolute ׳ע, attending sunset Genesis 15:17 (with verb masculine; AlbrZAW xv (1895), 325 KöSynt. § 350 e read הָֽיְתָה); ׳בַּע Ezekiel 12:7 ("" בָּעֶרֶב), 12:6; 12:12. עֶלְיוֺן עֲלִיָּה, עִלִּי, עֱלִי, עֵלִי, see עלה. p. 750f עֲלֵי see עַל. עַלְיָן עַלְיָה, see עלוז עלוה,.p.752 |
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