אָלָה ʼâlâh — an imprecation
Translated in the KJV as curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.
from H422; an imprecation.
ʼâlâh in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Infinitive construct 1
לְהַֽאֲלֹת֑וֹ 2Chr 6:22 Infinitive construct
If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›