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עָלָה

a.lahto ascend: riseHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb889 occurrences36 books817 verses

Definition

a primitive root; to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
Traditional renderings: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, × mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders עָלָה:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

889 total
  1. 2 Kings 2:23עֲלֵ֥ה · Go up; עֲלֵ֥ה · Go up
    From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
  2. 2 Kings 3:7אֶעֱלֶ֔ה · I will go
    And he sent a message to Jehoshaphat king of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to fight against Moab?” “I will go,” replied Jehoshaphat. “I am as you are, my people are your people, and my horses are your horses.”
  3. 2 Kings 3:8נַעֲלֶ֑ה · shall we go up
    Then he asked, “Which way shall we go up?” “By way of the Desert of Edom,” replied Joram.
  4. 2 Kings 3:20כַּעֲל֣וֹת · at the time of the morning sacrifice
    The next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water suddenly flowed from the direction of Edom and filled the land.
  5. 2 Kings 3:21עָל֥וּ · had come up
    Now all the Moabites had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. So all who could bear arms, young and old, were summoned and stationed at the border.
  6. 2 Kings 3:27וַיַּעֲלֵ֤הוּ · and offered him
    So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him, and offered him as a burnt offering on the city wall. And there was great fury against the Israelites, so they withdrew and returned to their own land.
  7. 2 Kings 4:21וַתַּ֙עַל֙ · And she went up
    And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God. Then she shut the door and went out.
  8. 2 Kings 4:34וַיַּ֜עַל · Then [Elisha] got on the bed
    Then Elisha got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, the boy’s body became warm.
  9. 2 Kings 4:35וַיַּ֖עַל · Then he got on the bed
    Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
  10. 2 Kings 6:24וַיַּ֕עַל · and marched up
    Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.
  11. 2 Kings 10:15וַיַּעֲלֵ֥הוּ · and Jehu helped him
    When he left there, he found Jehonadab son of Rechab, who was coming to meet him. Jehu greeted him and asked, “Is your heart as true to mine as my heart is to yours?” “It is!” Jehonadab replied. “If it is,” said Jehu, “give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand, and Jehu helped him into his chariot,
  12. 2 Kings 12:4יַֽעֲלֶה֙ · voluntarily
    Then Joash said to the priests, “Collect all the money brought as sacred gifts into the house of the LORD—the census money, the money from vows, and the money brought voluntarily into the house of the LORD.
  13. 2 Kings 12:10וַיַּ֨עַל · would go up
    Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags.
  14. 2 Kings 12:17יַעֲלֶ֗ה · marched up; לַעֲל֖וֹת · to attack
    At that time Hazael king of Aram marched up and fought against Gath and captured it. Then he decided to attack Jerusalem.
  15. 2 Kings 12:18וַיַּ֖עַל · So [Hazael] withdrew
    So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
  16. 2 Kings 14:11וַיַּ֨עַל · advanced
    But Amaziah would not listen, so Jehoash king of Israel advanced. He and King Amaziah of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.
  17. 2 Kings 15:14וַיַּעַל֩ · went up
    Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria, struck down and killed Shallum son of Jabesh, and reigned in his place.
  18. 2 Kings 16:5יַעֲלֶ֣ה · came up
    Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.
  19. 2 Kings 16:7עֲלֵ֨ה · Come up
    So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me from the hands of the kings of Aram and Israel, who are rising up against me.”
  20. 2 Kings 16:9וַיַּעַל֩ · marched up
    So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.
  21. 2 Kings 16:12וַיַּ֥עַל · and presented offerings
    When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.
  22. 2 Kings 17:3עָלָ֔ה · him
    Shalmaneser king of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid him tribute.
  23. 2 Kings 17:4הֶעֱלָ֥ה · paid
    But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.
  24. 2 Kings 17:5וַיַּ֥עַל · invaded; וַיַּ֙עַל֙ · marched up
    Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
  25. 2 Kings 17:7הַמַּעֲלֶ֤ה · who had brought
    All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods
  26. 2 Kings 17:36הֶעֱלָ֨ה · brought
    Instead, worship the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. You are to bow down to Him and offer sacrifices to Him.
  27. 2 Kings 18:9עָלָ֞ה · marched
    In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.
  28. 2 Kings 18:13עָלָ֞ה · attacked
    In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
  29. 2 Kings 18:17וַֽיַּעֲלוּ֙ · They advanced up; וַיַּעֲל֣וּ
    Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
  30. 2 Kings 18:25עָלִ֛יתִי · that I have come up; עֲלֵ֛ה · Go up
    So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
  31. 2 Kings 19:14וַיַּ֙עַל֙ · and went up to
    So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.
  32. 2 Kings 19:23עָלִ֛יתִי · have ascended
    Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
  33. 2 Kings 19:28עָלָ֣ה · have reached
    Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
  34. 2 Kings 20:5תַּעֲלֶ֖ה · you will go up
    “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
  35. 2 Kings 20:8וְעָלִ֛יתִי · and that I will go up
    Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
  36. 2 Kings 22:4עֲלֵ֗ה · Go up
    “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
  37. 2 Kings 23:2וַיַּ֣עַל · went up
    And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
  38. 2 Kings 23:9יַֽעֲלוּ֙ · come up
    Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
  39. 2 Kings 23:29עָלָה֩ · marched up
    During Josiah’s reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went out to confront him, but Neco faced him and killed him at Megiddo.
  40. 2 Kings 24:1עָלָ֔ה · invaded
    During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
  41. 2 Kings 24:10עָלָה · marched up
    At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
  42. 2 Kings 25:6וַיַּעֲל֥וּ · and brought him up
    The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.
  43. 1 Chronicles 11:6וַיַּ֧עַל · went up
    Now David had said, “Whoever is the first to strike down a Jebusite will become chief commander.” And Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became the chief.
  44. 1 Chronicles 13:6וַיַּ֨עַל · went up; לְהַעֲל֣וֹת · to bring up
    David and all Israel went up to Baalah of Judah (that is, Kiriath-jearim) to bring up from there the ark of God the LORD, who is enthroned between the cherubim—the ark that is called by the Name.