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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. Numbers 33:7עַל־ · to; עַל־ · opposite
    They set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, opposite Baal-zephon, and they camped near Migdol.
  2. Numbers 33:10עַל־ · by
    They set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
  3. Numbers 33:38עַל־ · At
    At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.
  4. Numbers 33:48עַ֖ל · by
    They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
  5. Numbers 33:49עַל־ · by
    And there on the plains of Moab they camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim.
  6. Numbers 33:50עַל־ · by
    On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,
  7. Numbers 33:55עַל־ · you in
    But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.
  8. Numbers 34:3עַל־ · along
    Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,
  9. Numbers 34:11עַל־
    …then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.
  10. Numbers 35:1עַל־ · by
    Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:
  11. Numbers 35:6וַעֲלֵיהֶ֣ם · In addition to these
    Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
  12. Numbers 35:20עָלָ֛יו · at him
    Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,
  13. Numbers 35:22עָלָ֛יו · at him
    But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,
  14. Numbers 35:23עָלָ֖יו
    …or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,
  15. Numbers 35:24עַ֥ל · according to
    …then the congregation must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.
  16. Numbers 36:3עַ֚ל · to
    But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe into which they marry. So our allotted inheritance would be taken away.
  17. Numbers 36:4עַ֚ל · to
    And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.”
  18. Numbers 36:5עַל־ · So at
    So at the word of the LORD, Moses commanded the Israelites: “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks correctly.
  19. Numbers 36:12עַל־ · within
    They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.
  20. Numbers 36:13עַ֖ל · by
    These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
  21. Deuteronomy 1:11עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם
    May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
  22. Deuteronomy 1:15עֲלֵיכֶ֑ם · over you
    So I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and respected men, and appointed them as leaders over you—as commanders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, and as officers for your tribes.
  23. Deuteronomy 2:25עַל־ · of you
    This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”
  24. Deuteronomy 2:36עַל־ · on
    From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
  25. Deuteronomy 3:12עַל־ · along
    So at that time we took possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with its cities.
  26. Deuteronomy 3:14עַל־ · after
    Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.
  27. Deuteronomy 4:2עַל־ · to
    You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.
  28. Deuteronomy 4:10עַל־ · on
    The day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, the LORD said to me, “Gather the people before Me to hear My words, so that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach them to their children.”
  29. Deuteronomy 4:13עַל־ · on
    He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.
  30. Deuteronomy 4:21עַל־ · on account
    The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  31. Deuteronomy 4:26מֵעַ֣ל · from; עָלֶ֔יהָ · upon it
    I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.
  32. Deuteronomy 4:32עַל־ · on
    Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
  33. Deuteronomy 4:36וְעַל־ · and on
    He let you hear His voice from heaven to discipline you, and on earth He showed you His great fire, and you heard His words out of the fire.
  34. Deuteronomy 4:39וְעַל־ · and on
    Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.
  35. Deuteronomy 4:40עַל־ · in
    Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
  36. Deuteronomy 4:48עַל־ · on
    …extending from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Siyon (that is, Hermon),
  37. Deuteronomy 5:7עַל־ · before
    You shall have no other gods before Me.
  38. Deuteronomy 5:9עַל־ · on; וְעַל־; וְעַל־
    You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
  39. Deuteronomy 5:15עַל־ · That is why
    Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  40. Deuteronomy 5:16עַ֚ל · in
    Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  41. Deuteronomy 5:22עַל־ · on
    The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
  42. Deuteronomy 6:6עַל־ · upon
    These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
  43. Deuteronomy 6:8עַל־ · on
    Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
  44. Deuteronomy 6:9עַל־ · on
    Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
  45. Deuteronomy 6:15מֵעַ֖ל · off
    For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.
  46. Deuteronomy 7:6עַל־ · on
    For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.