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 49:4 עָלִ֖יתָ 'a.Li.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

  2. Genesis 49:4 עָלָֽה׃ פ 'a.Lah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Boiling over as water, thou shalt not have the pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

  3. Genesis 49:9 עָלִ֑יתָ 'a.Li.ta · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    Judah is a lion's whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?

  4. Genesis 50:5 אֶֽעֱלֶה־ 'e.'e.leh- · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

  5. Genesis 50:6 עֲלֵ֛ה 'a.Leh · A command to you: simple action

    And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

  6. Genesis 50:7 וַיַּ֥עַל vai.Ya.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

  7. Genesis 50:7 וַיַּֽעֲל֨וּ vai.ya.'a.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

  8. Genesis 50:9 וַיַּ֣עַל vai.Ya.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

  9. Genesis 50:14 הָעֹלִ֥ים ha.'o.Lim · An -ing word: simple action

    And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

  10. Genesis 50:24 וְהֶעֱלָ֤ה ve.he.'e.Lah · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

  11. Genesis 50:25 וְהַעֲלִתֶ֥ם ve.ha.'a.li.Tem · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

  12. Exodus 1:10 וְעָלָ֥ה ve.'a.Lah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.

  13. Exodus 2:23 וַתַּ֧עַל va.Ta.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

  14. Exodus 3:8 וּֽלְהַעֲלֹתוֹ֮ u.le.ha.'a.lo.To · The “to do” form of an action: causing it

    and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  15. Exodus 3:17 אַעֲלֶ֣ה 'a.'a.Leh · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

  16. Exodus 8:3 וְעָלוּ֙ ve.'a.Lu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs:

  17. Exodus 8:4 יַעֲל֖וּ ya.'a.Lu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    and the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.

  18. Exodus 8:5 וְהַ֥עַל ve.Ha.'al · A command to you: causing it

    And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.

  19. Exodus 8:6 וַתַּ֙עַל֙ va.Ta.'al · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

  20. Exodus 8:7 וַיַּעֲל֥וּ vai.ya.'a.Lu · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by them

    And the magicians did in like manner with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.

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