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עָלַע

a.la

to suck

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Strong’s H5966Verb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

they drink1

In the text

Job 39:30יְעַלְעוּ
His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.”

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[עָלַע] vb. assumed as √ of Pi. Jb 39:30 they drink (?) blood

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.