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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. Hosea 13:15עֹלֶ֗ה · rising up
    Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.
  2. Joel 1:6עָלָ֣ה · has invaded
    For a nation has invaded My land, powerful and without number; its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are the fangs of a lioness.
  3. Joel 2:7יַעֲל֣וּ · they scale
    They charge like mighty men; they scale the walls like men of war. Each one marches in formation, not swerving from the course.
  4. Joel 2:9יַעֲל֑וּ · they climb
    They storm the city; they run along the wall; they climb into houses, entering through windows like thieves.
  5. Joel 2:20וְעָלָ֣ה · will rise; וְתַ֙עַל֙ · will ascend
    The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.
  6. Joel 3:9יַֽעֲל֔וּ · and attack
    Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!
  7. Joel 3:12וְיַעֲל֣וּ · and advance
    Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.
  8. Amos 2:10הֶעֱלֵ֥יתִי · brought
    And I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, that you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.
  9. Amos 3:1הֶעֱלֵ֛יתִי · I brought up
    Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
  10. Amos 3:5הֲיַֽעֲלֶה־ · spring
    Does a bird land in a snare where no bait has been set? Does a trap spring from the ground when it has nothing to catch?
  11. Amos 4:10וָאַעֲלֶ֞ה · I filled
    “I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
  12. Amos 5:22תַּעֲלוּ־ · you offer
    Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
  13. Amos 7:1עֲל֣וֹת · as the late spring crop
    This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up.
  14. Amos 8:8וְעָלְתָ֤ה · will swell
    Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.
  15. Amos 8:10וְהַעֲלֵיתִ֤י · to wear
    I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
  16. Amos 9:2יַעֲלוּ֙ · they climb up
    Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.
  17. Amos 9:5וְעָלְתָ֤ה · rises
    The Lord GOD of Hosts, He who touches the earth and it melts, and all its dwellers mourn—all the land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt—
  18. Amos 9:7הֶעֱלֵ֙יתִי֙ · bring
    “Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?
  19. Obadiah 1:21וְעָל֤וּ · will ascend
    The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.
  20. Jonah 1:2עָלְתָ֥ה · has come up
    “Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
  21. Jonah 2:6וַתַּ֧עַל · But You raised
    To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
  22. Jonah 4:6וַיַּ֣עַל׀ · and it grew up
    So the LORD God appointed a vine, and it grew up to provide shade over Jonah’s head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was greatly pleased with the plant.
  23. Jonah 4:7בַּעֲל֥וֹת · came
    When dawn came the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the plant so that it withered.
  24. Micah 2:13עָלָ֤ה · will go up
    One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate, and go out by it. Their King will pass through before them, the LORD as their leader.
  25. Micah 4:2וְנַעֲלֶ֣ה · let us go up
    And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
  26. Micah 6:4הֶעֱלִתִ֙יךָ֙ · I brought you up
    For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.
  27. Nahum 2:1עָלָ֥ה · advances
    One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!
  28. Nahum 2:7הֹֽעֲלָ֑תָה · and carried away
    It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
  29. Nahum 3:3מַעֲלֶ֗ה · Charging
    Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—
  30. Habakkuk 1:15הֵֽעֲלָ֔ה · up
    The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.
  31. Habakkuk 3:16לַעֲל֖וֹת · to come upon
    I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the people who invade us.
  32. Haggai 1:8עֲל֥וּ · Go up
    Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.
  33. Zechariah 14:13וְעָלְתָ֥ה · of one will rise
    On that day a great panic from the LORD will come upon them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.
  34. Zechariah 14:16וְעָל֞וּ · will go up
    Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
  35. Zechariah 14:17יַעֲלֶ֜ה · go up
    And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them.
  36. Zechariah 14:18תַעֲלֶ֛ה · go up; יַֽעֲל֔וּ · go up
    And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter in, then the rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.
  37. Zechariah 14:19יַֽעֲל֔וּ · go up
    This will be the punishment of Egypt and of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.