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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. Deuteronomy 24:5עָלָ֖יו
    If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.
  2. Deuteronomy 24:15עָלָ֣יו; עָלֶ֙יךָ֙ · against you
    You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
  3. Deuteronomy 24:16עַל־ · for; עַל־ · for
    Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
  4. Deuteronomy 24:18עַל־ · Therefore
    Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from that place. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
  5. Deuteronomy 24:22עַל־ · Therefore
    Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.
  6. Deuteronomy 25:3עַל־ · than
    He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
  7. Deuteronomy 25:5עָלֶ֔יהָ
    When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
  8. Deuteronomy 25:6עַל־ · on
    The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
  9. Deuteronomy 25:9מֵעַ֣ל
    …his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”
  10. Deuteronomy 25:15עַ֚ל · in
    You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
  11. Deuteronomy 26:6עָלֵ֖ינוּ
    But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.
  12. Deuteronomy 26:19עַ֤ל · above
    …that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.
  13. Deuteronomy 27:3עֲלֵיהֶ֗ן · on them
    Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
  14. Deuteronomy 27:5עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם · on them
    Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.
  15. Deuteronomy 27:6עָלָיו֙ · upon it
    You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God.
  16. Deuteronomy 27:8עַל־ · upon
    And you shall write distinctly upon these stones all the words of this law.”
  17. Deuteronomy 27:12עַל־ · on
    “When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
  18. Deuteronomy 27:13עַל־ · to
    And these tribes shall stand on Mount Ebal to deliver the curse: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
  19. Deuteronomy 28:1עַ֖ל · high above
    “Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
  20. Deuteronomy 28:2עָלֶ֛יךָ · upon you
    And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God:
  21. Deuteronomy 28:7עָלֶ֔יךָ · against you
    The LORD will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you in one direction but flee from you in seven.
  22. Deuteronomy 28:10עָלֶ֑יךָ
    Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they will stand in awe of you.
  23. Deuteronomy 28:11עַ֚ל · in
    The LORD will make you prosper abundantly—in the fruit of your womb, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your land—in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.
  24. Deuteronomy 28:15עָלֶ֛יךָ · upon you
    If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
  25. Deuteronomy 28:21מֵעַל֙ · from
    The LORD will make the plague cling to you until He has exterminated you from the land that you are entering to possess.
  26. Deuteronomy 28:23עַל־ · over
    The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
  27. Deuteronomy 28:24עָלֶ֔יךָ · on you
    The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed.
  28. Deuteronomy 28:35עַל־ · on; וְעַל־
    The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.
  29. Deuteronomy 28:36עָלֶ֔יךָ
    The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
  30. Deuteronomy 28:43עָלֶ֖יךָ · above you
    The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
  31. Deuteronomy 28:45עָלֶ֜יךָ · upon you
    All these curses will come upon you. They will pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the LORD your God and keep the commandments and statutes He gave you.
  32. Deuteronomy 28:48עַל־ · on
    …you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
  33. Deuteronomy 28:49עָלֶ֨יךָ · upon you
    The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
  34. Deuteronomy 28:56עַל־ · on
    The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
  35. Deuteronomy 28:61עָלֶ֔יךָ · upon you
    The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
  36. Deuteronomy 28:63עֲלֵיכֶ֗ם; עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם; מֵעַ֣ל · from
    Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.
  37. Deuteronomy 29:5מֵעֲלֵיכֶ֔ם; מֵעַ֥ל
    For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
  38. Deuteronomy 29:24עַל־ · Why
    So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
  39. Deuteronomy 29:25עַ֚ל · It is because
    And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
  40. Deuteronomy 29:27עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ · upon it
    Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against this land, and He brought upon it every curse written in this book.
  41. Deuteronomy 29:28מֵעַ֣ל · from
    The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’
  42. Deuteronomy 30:1עָלֶ֜יךָ · upon you
    “When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
  43. Deuteronomy 30:7עַל־ · upon; וְעַל־
    Then the LORD your God will put all these curses upon your enemies who hate you and persecute you.