עָלָה

a.lah · to ascend: rise

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

English

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. Jeremiah 51:42 עָלָ֥ה 'a.Lah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

  2. Jeremiah 51:50 תַּעֲלֶ֥ה ta.'a.Leh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Ye that have escaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

  3. Jeremiah 51:53 תַעֲלֶ֤ה ta.'a.Leh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come unto her, saith Jehovah.

  4. Jeremiah 52:9 וַיַּעֲל֨וּ vai.ya.'a.Lu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.

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