עָלָה

a.lah · to ascend: rise

Hebrew · Strong's H5927 · Verb · Sounds like: aw-law' · 890 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to ascend: rise H5927G 618
  • to ascend: establish H5927H · a Meaning of 153
  • to ascend: offer up H5927I · a Meaning of 85
  • to ascend: attack H5927J · a Meaning of 12
  • to ascend: regurgitate H5927M · a Meaning of 9
  • to ascend: dawn H5927L · a Meaning of 7
  • to ascend: copulate H5927K · a Meaning of 6

Strong's dictionary

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.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (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

Every occurrence

  1. Genesis 2:6 יַֽעֲלֶ֣ה ya.'a.Leh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

  2. Genesis 8:20 וַיַּ֥עַל vai.Ya.'al · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

  3. Genesis 13:1 וַיַּעַל֩ vai.ya.'Al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

  4. Genesis 17:22 וַיַּ֣עַל vai.Ya.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

  5. Genesis 19:15 עָלָ֔ה 'a.Lah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters that are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

  6. Genesis 19:28 עָלָה֙ 'a.Lah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

  7. Genesis 19:30 וַיַּעַל֩ vai.ya.'Al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

  8. Genesis 22:2 וְהַעֲלֵ֤הוּ ve.ha.'a.Le.hu · A command to you: causing it

    And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

  9. Genesis 22:13 וַיַּעֲלֵ֥הוּ vai.ya.'a.Le.hu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.

  10. Genesis 24:16 וַתָּֽעַל׃ va.Ta.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the fountain, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

  11. Genesis 26:23 וַיַּ֥עַל vai.Ya.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.

  12. Genesis 28:12 עֹלִ֥ים 'o.Lim · An -ing word: simple action

    And he dreamed; and behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and, behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

  13. Genesis 31:10 הָעֹלִ֣ים ha.'o.Lim · An -ing word: simple action

    And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled.

  14. Genesis 31:12 הָעֹלִ֣ים ha.'o.Lim · An -ing word: simple action

    And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see: all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.

  15. Genesis 32:24 עֲל֥וֹת a.Lot · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

  16. Genesis 32:26 עָלָ֖ה 'a.Lah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

  17. Genesis 35:1 עֲלֵ֥ה 'a.Leh · A command to you: simple action

    And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

  18. Genesis 35:3 וְנַעֲלֶ֖ה ve.na.'a.Leh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by us

    and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

  19. Genesis 35:13 וַיַּ֥עַל vai.Ya.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And God went up from him in the place where he spake with him.

  20. Genesis 37:28 וַיַּֽעֲל֤וּ vai.ya.'a.Lu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

Greek and Hebrew data: STEPBible.org (Tyndale House Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0. All sources and licences