STRONGS NUMBER H5949


Word Summary
alilah: wantonness, a deed
Original Word: עֲלִילָה
Transliteration: alilah
Phonetic Spelling: (al-ee-law')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: wantonness, a deed
Meaning: an exploit, a performance, an opportunity
Strong's Concordance
action, deed, doing, invention, occasion, work

Or malilah {al-ee-law'}; from alal in the sense of effecting; an exploit (of God), or a performance (of man, often in a bad sense); by implication, an opportunity -- act(-ion), deed, doing, invention, occasion, work.

see HEBREW alal

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5949. alilah

עֲלִילָהnoun feminine wantonness, deed; — absolute ׳עPsalm 14:1; 66:5; elsewhere plural עֲלִלוֺת1 Samuel 2:3; Psalm 141:4; construct עֲלִילֹתDeuteronomy 22:14, 17; suffix עֲלִילוֺתֶיךָPsalm 77:13, עֲלִילוֺתָםZephaniah 3:7 +, etc.; —

1 wantonness, ׳ע דְּבָרִיםDeuteronomy 22:14, 17 wantonness of words, i.e. baseless charges (compare Di, especially Dr).

2 deed:

a. in General, of men 1 Samuel 2:3.

b. of ׳י‎ (only Psalms) Psalm 9:12 = 105:1 = Isaiah 12:4 = 1 Chronicles 16:8; Psalm 77:13 ("" מָּעֳלֶ֑ךָ‎), 78:11 ("" נִפְלְאוֺתָיו‎), 103:7; ע ׳נוֺרָא עַל66:5 he is terrible in deed toward, etc.

c. usually practices = evil deeds (especially Ezekiel 8 t.): Ezekiel 14:22-23, 20:43; 24:14; 36:17, 19 (all "" דֶּרֶךְ‎), fully ׳ע הַנִּשְׁחָתוֺת20:44 ("" ׳ד הָרָעִים‎); 21:29; Zephaniah 3:11; כָּלעֿ ׳הִשְׁחִיתוּ3:7.