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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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  • Exodus 13:18
    But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
  • Exodus 13:19
    And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
  • Exodus 16:13
    And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
  • Exodus 16:14
    And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.
  • Exodus 17:3
    And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
  • Exodus 17:10
    So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
  • Exodus 19:3
    And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
  • Exodus 19:12
    And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
  • Exodus 19:13
    There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.
  • Exodus 19:18
    And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.