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. Judges 1:1 יַעֲלֶה־ ya.'a.leh- · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel asked of Jehovah, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?

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

    And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

  3. Judges 1:3 עֲלֵ֧ה 'a.Leh · A command to you: simple action

    And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.

  4. Judges 1:4 וַיַּ֣עַל vai.Ya.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Judah went up; and Jehovah delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they smote of them in Bezek ten thousand men.

  5. Judges 1:16 עָל֨וּ 'a.Lu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And the children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm-trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt with the people.

  6. Judges 1:22 וַיַּעֲל֧וּ vai.ya.'a.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth-el; and Jehovah was with them.

  7. Judges 2:1 וַיַּ֧עַל vai.Ya.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you:

  8. Judges 2:1 אַעֲלֶ֨ה 'a.'a.Leh · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    And the angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you:

  9. Judges 4:5 וַיַּעֲל֥וּ vai.ya.'a.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And she dwelt under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

  10. Judges 4:10 וַיַּ֣עַל vai.Ya.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.

  11. Judges 4:10 וַתַּ֥עַל va.Ta.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh; and there went up ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.

  12. Judges 4:12 עָלָ֛ה 'a.Lah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.

  13. Judges 6:3 וְעָלָ֨ה ve.'a.Lah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;

  14. Judges 6:3 וְעָל֥וּ ve.'a.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;

  15. Judges 6:5 יַעֲל֜וּ ya.'a.Lu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    For they came up with their cattle and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.

  16. Judges 6:8 הֶעֱלֵ֤יתִי he.'e.Lei.ti · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    that Jehovah sent a prophet unto the children of Israel: and he said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;

  17. Judges 6:13 הֶעֱלָ֣נוּ he.'e.La.nu · An action: causing it, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Gideon said unto him, Oh, my lord, if Jehovah is with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not Jehovah bring us up from Egypt? but now Jehovah hath cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.

  18. Judges 6:21 וַתַּ֨עַל va.Ta.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Then the angel of Jehovah put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of Jehovah departed out of his sight.

  19. Judges 6:26 וְהַעֲלִ֣יתָ ve.ha.'a.Li.ta · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by you

    and build an altar unto Jehovah thy God upon the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt-offering with the wood of the Asherah which thou shalt cut down.

  20. Judges 6:28 הֹֽעֲלָ֔ה ho.'a.Lah · An action: being caused, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.

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