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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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  • 1 Samuel 25:13
    And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.
  • 1 Samuel 25:35
    So David received of her hand that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.
  • 1 Samuel 27:8
    And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
  • 1 Samuel 28:8
    And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.
  • 1 Samuel 28:11
    Then said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.
  • 1 Samuel 28:13
    And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.
  • 1 Samuel 28:14
    And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
  • 1 Samuel 28:15
    And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.
  • 1 Samuel 29:9
    And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
  • 1 Samuel 29:11
    So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.