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עַל

aluponHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentPreposition5,774 occurrences39 books4,492 verses

Definition

properly, the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
Traditional renderings: above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, × as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, × both and, by (reason of), × had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, × with.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עַל:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

5,774 total
  1. Ezekiel 4:2עָלֶ֜יהָ · against it; עָלֶ֙יהָ֙; עָלֶ֖יהָ · to it; עָלֶ֧יהָ · against it; עָלֶ֥יהָ · around it
    Then lay siege against it: Construct a siege wall, build a ramp to it, set up camps against it, and place battering rams around it on all sides.
  2. Ezekiel 4:3עָלֶ֔יהָ
    Then take an iron plate and set it up as an iron wall between yourself and the city. Turn your face toward it so that it is under siege, and besiege it. This will be a sign to the house of Israel.
  3. Ezekiel 4:4עַל־ · on; עָלָ֑יו · upon yourself; עָלָ֔יו
    Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side.
  4. Ezekiel 4:6עַל־ · but on
    When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned to you 40 days, a day for each year.
  5. Ezekiel 4:7עָלֶֽיהָ׃ · against it
    You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.
  6. Ezekiel 4:8עָלֶ֖יךָ
    Now behold, I will tie you up with ropes so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.
  7. Ezekiel 4:9עַֽל־ · on
    But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side.
  8. Ezekiel 4:15עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃ס · over that
    “Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”
  9. Ezekiel 5:1עַל־; וְעַל־
    “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
  10. Ezekiel 5:8עָלַ֖יִךְ · against you, [Jerusalem]
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
  11. Ezekiel 5:16עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם · against you
    When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.
  12. Ezekiel 5:17עֲ֠לֵיכֶם · against you; עָלַ֔יִךְ · against you
    I will send famine and wild beasts against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed will sweep through you, and I will bring a sword against you. I, the LORD, have spoken.”
  13. Ezekiel 6:3עֲלֵיכֶם֙ · against you
    You are to say: ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD! This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
  14. Ezekiel 6:9מֵֽעָלַ֔י · from Me
    Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
  15. Ezekiel 6:14עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם · against them
    I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
  16. Ezekiel 7:2עַל־ · upon
    “O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.
  17. Ezekiel 7:3עָלַ֔יִךְ · upon you; עָלַ֔יִךְ · you
    The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.
  18. Ezekiel 7:4עָלַ֖יִךְ · look on you; עָלַ֣יִךְ
    I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’
  19. Ezekiel 7:8עָלַ֔יִךְ · upon you; עָלַ֔יִךְ
    Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.
  20. Ezekiel 7:9עָלַ֣יִךְ
    I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.
  21. Ezekiel 7:20עַל־ · Therefore
    His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.
  22. Ezekiel 7:26עַל־ · upon
    Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.
  23. Ezekiel 8:1עָלַי֙ · upon me
    In the sixth year, on the fifth day of the sixth month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me; and there the hand of the Lord GOD fell upon me.
  24. Ezekiel 8:6מֵעַ֣ל · from
    “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.”
  25. Ezekiel 8:10עַל־
    So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.
  26. Ezekiel 9:3מֵעַ֤ל · from above; עָלָ֔יו · [and moved]
    Then the glory of the God of Israel rose from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.
  27. Ezekiel 9:4עַל־ · on; עַ֚ל · over
    “Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”
  28. Ezekiel 9:5עַל
    And as I listened, He said to the others, “Follow him through the city and start killing; do not show pity or spare anyone!
  29. Ezekiel 9:6וְעַל־; עָלָ֤יו
    Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
  30. Ezekiel 9:8עַל־ · facedown; עַל־ · on
    While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord GOD, when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem, will You destroy the entire remnant of Israel?”
  31. Ezekiel 10:1עַל־ · above; עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃
    And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire.
  32. Ezekiel 10:2עַל־ · over
    And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.
  33. Ezekiel 10:4מֵעַ֣ל · from above; עַ֖ל · [and stood] over
    Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and stood over the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD.