Genesis 24:41
Footnote:
| 816 | Curse Strong’s #423, alah. a curse. “Oath” does not do this word justice. The context here obviously shows that this is something not clean. The root verb is alah (#422) to swear, curse. The point of an “oath” is to bind someone, regardless. “Yahweh, your elohe, the whole of the Curses [alah] of These ones over your enemies and over those who hate thee…” Deut. 30:7 literal “Upon thus a curse [alah] has eaten the earth…” Isaiah 24:6 literal “And the Priest has written the Curses [alah] of These ones in the Book, and he has wiped out toward dual-waters of the Bitterness.” Numbers 5:23 literal |