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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. Amos 9:12עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם
    …that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.
  2. Amos 9:15עַל־ · in; מֵעַ֤ל · from
    I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them,” says the LORD your God.
  3. Obadiah 1:1עָלֶיהָ · against her
    This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom—We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, “Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!”—
  4. Obadiah 1:11וְעַל־ · for
    On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
  5. Obadiah 1:14עַל־ · at
    Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.
  6. Obadiah 1:15עַל־ · for
    For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.
  7. Obadiah 1:16עַל־ · on
    For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.
  8. Jonah 1:2עָלֶ֑יהָ · against it
    “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
  9. Jonah 1:5מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶ֑ם · the load
    The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
  10. Jonah 1:7עַל־ · on
    “Come!” said the sailors to one another. “Let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity that is upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
  11. Jonah 1:11מֵֽעָלֵ֑ינוּ · for us
    Now the sea was growing worse and worse, so they said to Jonah, “What must we do to you to calm this sea for us?”
  12. Jonah 1:12מֵֽעֲלֵיכֶ֑ם · for you; עֲלֵיכֶֽם׃ · that has come upon you
    “Pick me up,” he answered, “and cast me into the sea, so it may quiet down for you. For I know that I am to blame for this violent storm that has come upon you.”
  13. Jonah 1:13עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃ · against them
    Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea was raging against them more and more.
  14. Jonah 1:14עָלֵ֖ינוּ · us
    So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”
  15. Jonah 2:3עָלַ֥י · over me
    For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
  16. Jonah 2:7עָלַי֙
    As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
  17. Jonah 3:6מֵֽעָלָ֑יו · in; עַל־
    When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
  18. Jonah 3:10עַל־ · from
    When God saw their actions—that they had turned from their evil ways—He relented from the disaster He had threatened to bring upon them.
  19. Jonah 4:2עַל־ · still in; עַל־ · This is why; עַל־ · from
    So he prayed to the LORD, saying, “O LORD, is this not what I said while I was still in my own country? This is why I was so quick to flee toward Tarshish. I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion—One who relents from sending disaster.
  20. Jonah 4:6מֵעַ֣ל · over; עַל־; עַל־
    So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.
  21. Jonah 4:8עַל־ · on
    As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
  22. Jonah 4:9עַל־ · about
    Then God asked Jonah, “Have you any right to be angry about the plant?” “I do,” he replied. “I am angry enough to die!”
  23. Jonah 4:10עַל־ · about
    But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.
  24. Jonah 4:11עַל־ · about
    So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
  25. Micah 1:1עַל־ · regarding
    This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem:
  26. Micah 1:3עַל־ · on
    For behold, the LORD comes forth from His dwelling place; He will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.
  27. Micah 1:8עַל־ · Because of
    Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
  28. Micah 1:14עַ֖ל · to
    Therefore, send farewell gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib will prove deceptive to the kings of Israel.
  29. Micah 1:16עַל־ · in mourning for
    Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
  30. Micah 2:1עַל־ · on
    Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
  31. Micah 2:3עַל־ · against
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.
  32. Micah 2:4עֲלֵיכֶ֣ם · against you
    In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”
  33. Micah 2:9מֵעַל֙ · from
    You drive the women of My people from their pleasant homes. You take away My blessing from their children forever.
  34. Micah 3:2מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶ֔ם · from my people; מֵעַ֥ל · from
    You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
  35. Micah 3:3מֵעֲלֵיהֶ֣ם
    You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
  36. Micah 3:5עַל־ · As for; עַל־ · against one; עָלָ֖יו · in
    This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:
  37. Micah 3:6עַל־ · on; עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם · over them
    Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.
  38. Micah 3:7עַל־
    Then the seers will be ashamed and the diviners will be disgraced. They will all cover their mouths because there is no answer from God.”
  39. Micah 3:11וְעַל־ · upon
    Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”