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עָלָה

a.lahto ascend: riseHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb889 occurrences36 books817 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
Traditional renderings: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, 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, × mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, 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.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עָלָה:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

889 total
  1. Genesis 2:6יַֽעֲלֶ֣ה · welled up
    But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
  2. Genesis 8:20וַיַּ֥עַל · he offered
    Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
  3. Genesis 13:1וַיַּעַל֩ · went up
    So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.
  4. Genesis 17:22וַיַּ֣עַל · went up
    When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
  5. Genesis 19:15עָלָ֔ה
    At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
  6. Genesis 19:28עָלָה֙ · rising
    He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
  7. Genesis 19:30וַיַּעַל֩ · left
    Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.
  8. Genesis 22:2וְהַעֲלֵ֤הוּ · Offer him
    “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
  9. Genesis 22:13וַיַּעֲלֵ֥הוּ · and offered
    Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
  10. Genesis 24:16וַתָּֽעַל׃ · and came up again
    Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.
  11. Genesis 26:23וַיַּ֥עַל · [Isaac] went up
    From there Isaac went up to Beersheba,
  12. Genesis 28:12עֹלִ֥ים · were going up
    And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
  13. Genesis 31:10הָעֹלִ֣ים · were mating
    When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.
  14. Genesis 31:12הָעֹלִ֣ים · that are mating
    ‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
  15. Genesis 32:24עֲל֥וֹת · daybreak
    So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
  16. Genesis 32:26עָלָ֖ה · it is daybreak
    Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
  17. Genesis 35:1עֲלֵ֥ה · go up
    Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
  18. Genesis 35:3וְנַעֲלֶ֖ה · and go
    Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
  19. Genesis 35:13וַיַּ֥עַל · went up
    Then God went up from the place where He had spoken with him.
  20. Genesis 37:28וַיַּֽעֲל֤וּ
    So when the Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
  21. Genesis 38:12וַיַּ֜עַל · went up
    After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
  22. Genesis 38:13עֹלֶ֥ה · is going up
    When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
  23. Genesis 40:10עָלְתָ֣ה · opened
    …and on the vine were three branches. As it budded, its blossoms opened and its clusters ripened into grapes.
  24. Genesis 41:2עֹלֹת֙ · came up
    …when seven cows, sleek and well-fed, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
  25. Genesis 41:3עֹל֤וֹת · came up
    After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.
  26. Genesis 41:5עֹל֛וֹת · came up
    …but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.
  27. Genesis 41:18עֹלֹת֙ · came up
    …when seven cows, well-fed and sleek, came up from the river and began to graze among the reeds.
  28. Genesis 41:19עֹל֣וֹת · came up
    After them, seven other cows—sickly, ugly, and thin—came up. I have never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt!
  29. Genesis 41:22עֹלֹ֛ת · growing on
    In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk.
  30. Genesis 41:27הָעֹלֹ֣ת · that came up
    Moreover, the seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind—they are seven years of famine.
  31. Genesis 44:17עֲל֥וּ · may return
    But Joseph replied, “Far be it from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace.”
  32. Genesis 44:24עָלִ֔ינוּ · we returned
    Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.
  33. Genesis 44:33יַ֥עַל · Let him return
    Now please let your servant stay here as my lord’s slave in place of the boy. Let him return with his brothers.
  34. Genesis 44:34אֶֽעֱלֶ֣ה · can I go back
    For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
  35. Genesis 45:9וַעֲל֣וּ · Now return
    Now return quickly to my father and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.
  36. Genesis 45:25וַֽיַּעֲל֖וּ · So [the brothers] went up
    So the brothers went up out of Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
  37. Genesis 46:4אַֽעַלְךָ֣ · bring you back; עָלֹ֑ה
    I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will surely bring you back. And Joseph’s own hands will close your eyes.”
  38. Genesis 46:29וַיַּ֛עַל · and went
    Joseph prepared his chariot and went there to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, embraced him, and wept profusely.
  39. Genesis 46:31אֶעֱלֶ֖ה · I will go up
    Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh: ‘My brothers and my father’s household from the land of Canaan have come to me.
  40. Genesis 49:4עָלִ֖יתָ · you went up; עָלָֽה׃פ · onto
    Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.
  41. Genesis 49:9עָלִ֑יתָ · you return
    Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
  42. Genesis 50:5אֶֽעֱלֶה־ · let me go
    …my father made me swear an oath when he said, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me in the tomb that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father, and then return.”
  43. Genesis 50:6עֲלֵ֛ה · Go up
    Pharaoh replied, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”
  44. Genesis 50:7וַיַּ֥עַל · went; וַיַּֽעֲל֨וּ · accompanied
    Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh accompanied him—the elders of Pharaoh’s household and all the elders of the land of Egypt—
  45. Genesis 50:9וַיַּ֣עַל · went up
    Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.
  46. Genesis 50:14הָעֹלִ֥ים · who had gone
    After Joseph had buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.
  47. Genesis 50:24וְהֶעֱלָ֤ה · and bring you up
    Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”