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Strong’s H502 · Hebrew

אָלַף

ʼâlaph · aw-lof'

Origin a primitive root, to associate with;

Meaning hence, to learn (and causatively to teach)

In the King James Version learn, teach, utter.

In 4 verses of the King James Version

  1. Job 15:5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
  2. Job 33:33If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.
  3. Job 35:11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
  4. Proverbs 22:25Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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