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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. 1 Chronicles 14:8וַיַּעֲל֥וּ · went
    When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, they all went in search of him; but David learned of this and went out to face them.
  2. 1 Chronicles 14:10הַאֶֽעֱלֶה֙ · Should I go up; עֲלֵ֔ה · Go
    So David inquired of God, “Should I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” “Go,” replied the LORD, “for I will deliver them into your hand.”
  3. 1 Chronicles 14:11וַיַּעֲל֥וּ · So [David and his men] went up
    So David and his men went up to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, God has burst out against my enemies by my hand.” So they called that place Baal-perazim.
  4. 1 Chronicles 14:14תַֽעֲלֶ֖ה · march up
    So David again inquired of God, who answered him, “Do not march up after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.
  5. 1 Chronicles 15:3לְהַעֲלוֹת֙ · to bring up
    And David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to the place he had prepared for it.
  6. 1 Chronicles 15:12וְהַֽעֲלִיתֶ֗ם · so that you may bring
    And he said to them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.
  7. 1 Chronicles 15:14לְהַעֲל֕וֹת · to bring up
    So the priests and Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.
  8. 1 Chronicles 15:25לְֽהַעֲל֞וֹת · to bring
    So David, the elders of Israel, and the commanders of thousands went with rejoicing to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom.
  9. 1 Chronicles 15:28מַעֲלִים֙ · brought up
    So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and with cymbals and the music of harps and lyres.
  10. 1 Chronicles 16:2מֵהַעֲל֥וֹת · sacrificing
    When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.
  11. 1 Chronicles 16:40לְֽהַעֲלוֹת֩ · present
    …to regularly present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offerings, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the Law of the LORD, which He had commanded Israel to keep.
  12. 1 Chronicles 17:5הֶעֱלֵ֙יתִי֙ · I brought
    For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought Israel up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved from tent to tent and dwelling to dwelling.
  13. 1 Chronicles 21:18יַעֲלֶ֣ה · to go up
    Then the angel of the LORD ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
  14. 1 Chronicles 21:19וַיַּ֤עַל · went up
    So David went up at the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the LORD.
  15. 1 Chronicles 21:24וְהַעֲל֥וֹת · nor will I offer
    “No,” replied King David, “I insist on paying the full price, for I will not take for the LORD what belongs to you, nor will I offer burnt offerings that cost me nothing.”
  16. 1 Chronicles 21:26וַיַּ֥עַל · and offered
    And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.
  17. 1 Chronicles 23:31הַעֲל֤וֹת · were presented
    Whenever burnt offerings were presented to the LORD on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, they were to serve regularly before the LORD in the numbers prescribed for them.
  18. 1 Chronicles 26:16הָעוֹלָ֑ה · on the ascending
    The lots for the West Gate and the Shallecheth Gate on the ascending highway fell to Shuppim and Hosah. There were guards stationed at every watch.
  19. 1 Chronicles 27:24עָלָה֙ · entered
    Joab son of Zeruiah began to count the men but did not finish. For because of this census wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not entered in the Book of the Chronicles of King David.
  20. 1 Chronicles 29:21וַיַּעֲל֨וּ
    The next day they offered sacrifices and presented burnt offerings to the LORD: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, along with their drink offerings, and other sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.
  21. 2 Chronicles 1:4הֶעֱלָ֤ה · had brought
    Now David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.
  22. 2 Chronicles 1:6וַיַּעַל֩ · offered sacrifices; וַיַּ֧עַל · he offered
    Solomon offered sacrifices there before the LORD on the bronze altar at the Tent of Meeting, where he offered a thousand burnt offerings.
  23. 2 Chronicles 1:17וַֽ֠יַּעֲלוּ · could be imported
    A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.
  24. 2 Chronicles 2:16תַּעֲלֶ֥ה · can take them up
    We will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”
  25. 2 Chronicles 3:5וַיַּ֧עַל · and decorated
    He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.
  26. 2 Chronicles 3:14וַיַּ֥עַל · woven
    He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.
  27. 2 Chronicles 5:2לְֽהַעֲל֞וֹת · to bring up
    At that time Solomon assembled in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.
  28. 2 Chronicles 5:5וַיַּעֲל֤וּ · and they brought up; הֶעֱל֣וּ · carried them up
    …and they brought up the ark and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. The Levitical priests carried them up.
  29. 2 Chronicles 8:8וַיַּעֲלֵ֤ם · conscripted these people
    …their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites had not destroyed—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
  30. 2 Chronicles 8:11הֶעֱלָ֤ה · brought
    Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
  31. 2 Chronicles 8:12הֶעֱלָ֧ה · offered
    At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD he had built in front of the portico.
  32. 2 Chronicles 8:13לְהַעֲלוֹת֙ · for offerings
    He observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
  33. 2 Chronicles 9:4יַעֲלֶ֖ה · he presented
    …the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants, the attire of his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.
  34. 2 Chronicles 9:15יַעֲלֶ֖ה · went
    King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of hammered gold went into each shield.
  35. 2 Chronicles 9:16יַעֲלֶ֖ה · went
    He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
  36. 2 Chronicles 10:18לַֽעֲל֣וֹת · mounted
    Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
  37. 2 Chronicles 11:4תַעֲלוּ֩ · to go up
    …that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the words of the LORD and turned back from going against Jeroboam.
  38. 2 Chronicles 12:2עָלָ֛ה · attacked
    In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem
  39. 2 Chronicles 12:9וַיַּ֨עַל · attacked
    So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
  40. 2 Chronicles 16:1עָלָ֞ה · went up
    In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.
  41. 2 Chronicles 16:3וְיַעֲלֶ֖ה · so that he will withdraw
    “Let there be a treaty between me and you as there was between my father and your father. See, I have sent you silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”
  42. 2 Chronicles 18:2לַעֲל֖וֹת · to march up
    And some years later he went down to visit Ahab in Samaria, where Ahab sacrificed many sheep and cattle for him and the people with him and urged him to march up to Ramoth-gilead.
  43. 2 Chronicles 18:5עֲלֵ֔ה · Go up
    So the king of Israel assembled the prophets, four hundred men, and asked them, “Should we go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should we refrain?” “Go up,” they replied, “and God will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
  44. 2 Chronicles 18:11עֲלֵ֞ה · Go up
    And all the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and triumph, for the LORD will deliver it into the hand of the king.”
  45. 2 Chronicles 18:14עֲל֣וּ · Go up
    When Micaiah arrived, the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we go to war against Ramoth-gilead, or should we refrain?” “Go up and triumph,” Micaiah replied, “for they will be delivered into your hand.”
  46. 2 Chronicles 18:19וְיַ֕עַל · to march up
    And the LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab king of Israel to march up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one suggested this, and another that.
  47. 2 Chronicles 18:28וַיַּ֧עַל · went up
    So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.