Hebrew · Strong’s H5927
עָלָה
ʻâlâh/aw-law'/
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
Derivation:
a primitive root;
887
Times used
887
Old Testament
0
New Testament
Verses (first 60 of 660)
- Genesis 2:6
- Genesis 8:20
- Genesis 13:1
- Genesis 17:22
- Genesis 19:15
- Genesis 19:28
- Genesis 19:30
- Genesis 22:2
- Genesis 22:13
- Genesis 26:23
- Genesis 28:12
- Genesis 31:10
- Genesis 31:12
- Genesis 32:24
- Genesis 32:26
- Genesis 35:1
- Genesis 35:3
- Genesis 35:13
- Genesis 37:28
- Genesis 38:12
- Genesis 38:13
- Genesis 40:10
- Genesis 41:2
- Genesis 41:3
- Genesis 41:5
- Genesis 41:18
- Genesis 41:19
- Genesis 41:22
- Genesis 41:27
- Genesis 44:17
- Genesis 44:24
- Genesis 44:33
- Genesis 44:34
- Genesis 45:9
- Genesis 45:25
- Genesis 46:4
- Genesis 46:29
- Genesis 46:31
- Genesis 49:4
- Genesis 49:9
- Genesis 50:5
- Genesis 50:6
- Genesis 50:7
- Genesis 50:9
- Genesis 50:14
- Genesis 50:24
- Genesis 50:25
- Exodus 1:10
- Exodus 2:23
- Exodus 3:8
- Exodus 3:17
- Exodus 8:3
- Exodus 8:4
- Exodus 8:5
- Exodus 8:6
- Exodus 8:7
- Exodus 10:12
- Exodus 10:14
- Exodus 12:38
- Exodus 13:18
Words derived from it
- H5930עֹלָה ʻôlâha step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)
- H4605מַעַל maʻalproperly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.
- H5945עֶלְיוֹן ʻelyôwnan elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme
- H5941עֵלִי ʻÊlîyEli, an Israelite highpriest
- H5944עֲלִיָּה ʻălîyâhsomething lofty, i.e. a stair-way; also a second-story room (or even one on the roof); figuratively, the sky
- H5929עָלֶה ʻâleha leaf (as coming up on a tree); collectively, foliage
- H4608מַעֲלֶה maʻălehan elevation, i.e. (concretely) acclivity or platform; abstractly (the relation or state) a rise or (figuratively) prior
- H8585תְּעָלָה tᵉʻâlâha channel (into which water is raised for irrigation); also a bandage or plaster (as placed upon a wound)
- H5920עַל ʻalproperly, the top; specifically, the highest (i.e. God); also (adverb) aloft, to Jehovah
- H500אֶלְעָלֵא ʼElʻâlêʼElale or Elaleh, a place east of the Jordan
- H5931עִלָּה ʻillâha pretext (as arising artificially)
- H5942עִלִּי ʻillîyhigh; i.e. comparative
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Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain. Verse list from the Strong’s-tagged King James Version.