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. 1 Kings 1:35 וַעֲלִיתֶ֣ם va.'a.li.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    Then ye shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead; and I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.

  2. 1 Kings 1:40 וַיַּעֲל֤וּ vai.ya.'a.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

  3. 1 Kings 1:45 וַיַּעֲל֤וּ vai.ya.'a.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon; and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.

  4. 1 Kings 2:34 וַיַּ֗עַל vai.Ya.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

  5. 1 Kings 3:4 יַעֲלֶ֣ה ya.'a.Leh · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar.

  6. 1 Kings 3:15 וַיַּ֤עַל vai.Ya.'al · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream: and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

  7. 1 Kings 5:13 וַיַּ֨עַל vai.Ya.'al · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

  8. 1 Kings 6:8 יַֽעֲלוּ֙ ya.'a.Lu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third.

  9. 1 Kings 8:1 לְֽהַעֲל֞וֹת le.ha.'a.Lot · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.

  10. 1 Kings 8:4 וַֽיַּעֲל֞וּ vai.ya.'a.Lu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And they brought up the ark of Jehovah, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

  11. 1 Kings 8:4 וַיַּעֲל֣וּ vai.ya.'a.Lu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And they brought up the ark of Jehovah, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

  12. 1 Kings 9:15 הֶעֱלָ֣ה׀ he.'e.Lah · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  13. 1 Kings 9:16 עָלָ֗ה 'a.Lah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a portion unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.

  14. 1 Kings 9:21 וַיַּעֲלֵ֤ם vai.ya.'a.Lem · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants unto this day.

  15. 1 Kings 9:24 עָֽלְתָה֙ 'al.Tah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

  16. 1 Kings 9:25 וְהֶעֱלָ֣ה ve.he.'e.Lah · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And three times a year did Solomon offer burnt-offerings and peace-offerings upon the altar which he built unto Jehovah, burning incense therewith, upon the altar that was before Jehovah. So he finished the house.

  17. 1 Kings 10:5 יַעֲלֶ֖ה ya.'a.Leh · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of Jehovah; there was no more spirit in her.

  18. 1 Kings 10:16 יַעֲלֶ֖ה ya.'a.Leh · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler.

  19. 1 Kings 10:17 יַעֲלֶ֖ה ya.'a.Leh · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pounds of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

  20. 1 Kings 10:29 וַֽ֠תַּעֲלֶה Va.ta.'a.leh · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

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