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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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  • Numbers 23:4
    And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared seven altars, and I have offered upon every altar a bullock and a ram.
  • Numbers 23:14
    And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
  • Numbers 23:30
    And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.
  • Numbers 27:12
    And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.
  • Numbers 32:9
    For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
  • Numbers 32:11
    Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
  • Numbers 33:38
    And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
  • Deuteronomy 1:21
    Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.
  • Deuteronomy 1:22
    And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
  • Deuteronomy 1:24
    And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.