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עָלָה (H5927)

ʻâlâh

aw-law'

a primitive root; to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative; arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, [phrase] shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, [idiom] mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, [phrase] perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

עָלָה 890 vb. go up, ascend, climb
Qal
1 of persons, go up, ascend, in local relations
2 go up, in personal relations
3 of animals, go or come up
4 of vegetation, spring up, grow, shoot forth
5 of natural phenom., go up, rise
6 of inanimate things, instead of passive construction
7 of thoughts
8 come up before God, arrogance
9 go up, extend, of boundary
10 excel
Niph.
1
a be brought up
b be taken up
c
(1) pass., be taken up, away
(2) reflex., take oneself away from, get up from
2 reflex.: take oneself away
3 be exalted, of God
Hiph.
1 bring up persons
2 in personal relations
3 bring up animals
4 cause to ascend
5 mentally
6 offer a present; bring up tithe to
7 exalt
8 cause to ascend (in flame), offer sacrifice
Hoph.
1 be carried away
2 be taken up into, inserted in
3 be offered
Hithp. lift oneself

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


817 occurrences

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  • Genesis 2:6
    But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
  • Genesis 8:20
    And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
  • Genesis 13:1
    And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
  • Genesis 17:22
    And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
  • Genesis 19:15
    And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.
  • Genesis 19:28
    And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
  • Genesis 19:30
    And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
  • Genesis 22:2
    And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
  • Genesis 22:13
    And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
  • Genesis 24:16
    And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.