אַלְיָה
tail
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H451 appears — 5 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 1 verse
Leviticus 4 verses
- Leviticus 3:9 הָ/אַלְיָ֣ה ptcl def.art + n c fs He shall offer from the sacrifice of peace offerings an offering made by fire to Yahweh; its fat, the entire tail fat, he shall take away close to the backbone; and the fat that covers the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,
- Leviticus 7:3 הָֽ/אַלְיָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,
- Leviticus 8:25 הָֽ/אַלְיָ֗ה ptcl def.art + n c fs He took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the innards, and the cover of the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right thigh;
- Leviticus 9:19 הָֽ/אַלְיָ֤ה ptcl def.art + n c fs and the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covers the innards, and the kidneys, and the cover of the liver:
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, אליה (ʼalyâh) means “tail.” A scarce word — 5 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Leviticus (80%), then Exodus. It first appears in Exodus 29:22. It clusters with אלה, אלה and אלה under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H451 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Rump 4×
- American Standard Version: Fat tail 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fat tail 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fatty tail 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H451 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H451 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H451 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H451 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- tail, fat-tail (of sheep - an Eastern delicacy)
Word origin
אַלְיָה n.f. fat tail of sheep, still accounted a delicacy in the East
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אלה (ʼâlâh) (H422) — to swear.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אַלְיָה
- attachment, whence
- 1. (cmp. זָנָב, גֹּונְבָא) tail, fat-tail. Ab. Zar. 25ᵃ (ref. to I Sam. IX, 24) what means v’heãleha (and that which is upon [or by] it)? שוק וא׳ that means the leg (with thigh) and the fat-tail. מאי והעליה וכ׳ and why is it called ‘and that which is upon it’? Because the leg is near the fat-tail (back). Ḥull. 117ᵃ; a. fr.—כלפי א׳ (Ar. s. v. כלפי; ed. כלפי לָיָיא, Mss. לָיָא) towards the tail! i.e. just the reverse!, reverse it. Pes. 5ᵇ; Sabb. 93ᵇ; Ab. Zar. 75ᵃ; a. fr. [Rashi: כלפי ליֵיא where are you turning to?] e.g. 1 Samuel 9:24
- 2. ear-lap. Keth. 5ᵇ
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H451 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הָ/אַלְיָ֣ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 3:9 | 1 |
| הָֽ/אַלְיָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 7:3 | 1 |
| הָֽ/אַלְיָ֗ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 8:25 | 1 |
| הָֽ/אַלְיָ֤ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 9:19 | 1 |
| וְ/הָֽ/אַלְיָ֜ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 29:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H451, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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