Strong's Hebrew · H5956
H5956 ʻâlam
עָלַם
aw-lam'
to conceal
ʻâlam appears 28 times in Scripture, including Leviticus 4:13 and Numbers 5:13. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to veil from sight, i.e. conceal (literally or figuratively)
In the King James Version
× any ways, blind, dissembler, hide (self), secret (thing).
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 28 times in Scripture
“Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.”
“If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.”
“Or if he touches human uncleanness—anything by which one becomes unclean—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty.”
“Now if the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly so that they violate any of the LORD’s commandments and incur guilt by doing what is forbidden,”
“Or if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty.”
“And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.”
“Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.””
“by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),”
“And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
