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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. Isaiah 60:14עַל־ · at
    The sons of your oppressors will come and bow down to you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet and call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
  2. Isaiah 61:1עָלָ֑י · is on Me
    The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
  3. Isaiah 62:5עַל־ · over; עָלַ֖יִךְ · over you
    For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
  4. Isaiah 62:6עַל־ · On
    On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
  5. Isaiah 62:10עַל־ · for
    Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!
  6. Isaiah 63:3עַל־
    “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
  7. Isaiah 63:7כְּעַ֕ל · because of
    I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great compassion and loving devotion.
  8. Isaiah 63:19עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם
    We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.
  9. Isaiah 64:12הַעַל־ · After
    After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
  10. Isaiah 65:3עַל־ · to; עַל־ · on
    …to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
  11. Isaiah 65:6עַל־ · into
    Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will pay it back into their laps,
  12. Isaiah 65:7עַל־ · on; וְעַל־ · on; עַל
    …both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”
  13. Isaiah 65:17עַל־ · to
    For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
  14. Isaiah 66:2עַל־ · at
    Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
  15. Isaiah 66:10עָלֶֽיהָ׃ · over her
    Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,
  16. Isaiah 66:12עַל־ · on; וְעַל־ · upon
    For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.
  17. Isaiah 66:20עַ֣ל · to
    And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.”
  18. Jeremiah 1:7עַֽל־ · to
    But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.
  19. Jeremiah 1:9עַל־
    Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
  20. Jeremiah 1:10עַל־ · over; וְעַל־
    See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”
  21. Jeremiah 1:12עַל־ · over
    “You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”
  22. Jeremiah 1:14עַ֥ל · on
    Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.
  23. Jeremiah 1:15וְעַ֤ל · They will attack; וְעַ֖ל
    For I am about to summon all the clans and kingdoms of the north,” declares the LORD. “Their kings will come and set up their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem. They will attack all her surrounding walls and all the other cities of Judah.
  24. Jeremiah 1:16עַ֖ל · for
    I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me, and they have burned incense to other gods and worshiped the works of their own hands.
  25. Jeremiah 1:18עַל־ · against
    Now behold, this day I have made you like a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.
  26. Jeremiah 2:5מֵעָלָ֑י · from Me
    This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.
  27. Jeremiah 2:12עַל־ · by
    Be stunned by this, O heavens; be shocked and utterly appalled,” declares the LORD.
  28. Jeremiah 2:15עָלָיו֙ · at him
    The young lions have roared at him; they have sounded their voices. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.
  29. Jeremiah 2:20עַֽל־ · on
    “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
  30. Jeremiah 2:34עַל־ · in spite of
    Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things
  31. Jeremiah 2:35עַל־ · because
    …you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
  32. Jeremiah 2:37עַל־ · on
    Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”
  33. Jeremiah 3:2עַל־ · to; עַל־ · beside
    “Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
  34. Jeremiah 3:6עַל־ · on
    Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
  35. Jeremiah 3:8עַל־ · because
    She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
  36. Jeremiah 3:16עַל־ · to
    “In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.
  37. Jeremiah 3:18עַל־ · with; עַל־ · to
    In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.
  38. Jeremiah 3:21עַל־ · on
    A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.
  39. Jeremiah 4:8עַל־ · So
    So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”
  40. Jeremiah 4:16עַל־ · to; עַל־ · against
    Warn the nations now! Proclaim to Jerusalem: “A besieging army comes from a distant land; they raise their voices against the cities of Judah.