Keraia
Lexicon

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

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

5,774 total
  1. Jeremiah 18:18עַֽל־ · against
    Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
  2. Jeremiah 18:20עֲלֵיהֶם֙ · on their behalf
    Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.
  3. Jeremiah 18:21עַל־ · upon them
    Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
  4. Jeremiah 18:22עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם · against them
    Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring raiders against them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and have hidden snares for my feet.
  5. Jeremiah 18:23עָלַי֙ · against me; עַל־
    But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
  6. Jeremiah 19:3עַל־ · on
    …saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,
  7. Jeremiah 19:5עַל־
    They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
  8. Jeremiah 19:8עָלֶ֔יהָ · by; עַל־ · at
    I will make this city a desolation and an object of scorn. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
  9. Jeremiah 19:13עַל־ · on
    The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
  10. Jeremiah 19:15וְעַל־ · and on; עָלֶ֑יהָ · against them
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
  11. Jeremiah 20:2עַל־ · in
    …he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
  12. Jeremiah 20:11עַל־ · Therefore
    But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
  13. Jeremiah 21:2עָלֵ֑ינוּ · against us; מֵעָלֵֽינוּ׃ס · from us
    “Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is waging war against us. Perhaps the LORD will perform for us something like all His past wonders, so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us.”
  14. Jeremiah 21:4עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם · you
    …this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
  15. Jeremiah 21:7עֲלֵיהֶ֔ם · them
    ‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will hand over Zedekiah king of Judah, his officers, and the people in this city who survive the plague and sword and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to their enemies who seek their lives. He will put them to the sword; he will not spare them or show pity or compassion.’
  16. Jeremiah 21:9עַל־ · to; עֲלֵיכֶם֙ · you
    Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.
  17. Jeremiah 21:13עָלֵ֔ינוּ · against us
    Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”
  18. Jeremiah 21:14עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם · you
    I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.’”
  19. Jeremiah 22:2עַל־ · on
    …saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.
  20. Jeremiah 22:4עַל־ · on
    For if you will indeed carry out these commands, then kings who sit on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace riding on chariots and horses—they and their officials and their people.
  21. Jeremiah 22:6עַל־ · concerning
    For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
  22. Jeremiah 22:7עָלֶ֛יךָ · against you; עַל־ · into
    I will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.
  23. Jeremiah 22:8עַ֖ל · by; עַל־ · Why
    And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
  24. Jeremiah 22:9עַ֚ל · Because
    Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”
  25. Jeremiah 22:17עַל־; וְעַ֤ל; וְעַל־; וְעַל־ · and
    “But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”
  26. Jeremiah 22:24עַל־ · on
    “As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
  27. Jeremiah 22:26עַ֚ל · into
    I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.
  28. Jeremiah 22:27וְעַל־ · to
    You will never return to the land for which you long.”
  29. Jeremiah 22:28עַל־ · into
    Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
  30. Jeremiah 22:30עַל־ · on
    This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
  31. Jeremiah 23:2עַֽל־ · about; עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם · to
    Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.
  32. Jeremiah 23:3עַל־ · to
    Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply.
  33. Jeremiah 23:4עֲלֵיהֶ֛ם · over them
    I will raise up shepherds over them who will tend them, and they will no longer be afraid or dismayed, nor will any go missing, declares the LORD.
  34. Jeremiah 23:8עַל־ · once more in
    Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will dwell once more in their own land.”
  35. Jeremiah 23:12עֲלֵיהֶ֥ם · upon them
    “Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
  36. Jeremiah 23:15עַל־ · concerning
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
  37. Jeremiah 23:16עַל־ · to
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
  38. Jeremiah 23:17עֲלֵיכֶ֖ם · to you
    They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’
  39. Jeremiah 23:19עַ֛ל · upon
    Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.