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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. Genesis 50:25וְהַעֲלִתֶ֥ם · and then you must carry
    And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”
  2. Exodus 1:10וְעָלָ֥ה · and leave
    Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”
  3. Exodus 2:23וַתַּ֧עַל · ascended
    After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
  4. Exodus 3:8וּֽלְהַעֲלֹתוֹ֮ · and to bring them up
    I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
  5. Exodus 3:17אַעֲלֶ֣ה · to bring you up
    And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
  6. Exodus 8:3וְעָלוּ֙ · and they will come
    The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
  7. Exodus 8:4יַעֲל֖וּ · will come up
    The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.’”
  8. Exodus 8:5וְהַ֥עַל · to come up onto
    And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers and canals and ponds, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Egypt.’”
  9. Exodus 8:6וַתַּ֙עַל֙ · came up
    So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
  10. Exodus 8:7וַיַּעֲל֥וּ · up
    But the magicians did the same thing by their magic arts, and they also brought frogs up onto the land of Egypt.
  11. Exodus 10:12וְיַ֖עַל · may swarm
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt, so that the locusts may swarm over it and devour every plant in the land—everything that the hail has left behind.”
  12. Exodus 10:14וַיַּ֣עַל · swarmed
    The locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many locusts, and never again will there be.
  13. Exodus 12:38עָלָ֣ה · went up
    And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
  14. Exodus 13:18עָל֥וּ · left
    So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.
  15. Exodus 13:19וְהַעֲלִיתֶ֧ם · and then you must carry
    Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones with you from this place.”
  16. Exodus 16:13וַתַּ֣עַל · came
    That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
  17. Exodus 16:14וַתַּ֖עַל · had evaporated
    When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground.
  18. Exodus 17:3הֶעֱלִיתָ֣נוּ · have you brought us
    But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: “Why have you brought us out of Egypt—to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?”
  19. Exodus 17:10עָל֖וּ · went up
    Joshua did as Moses had instructed him and fought against the Amalekites, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
  20. Exodus 19:3עָלָ֖ה · went up
    Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, “This is what you are to tell the house of Jacob and explain to the sons of Israel:
  21. Exodus 19:12עֲל֥וֹת · not to go up
    And you are to set up a boundary for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful not to go up on the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.
  22. Exodus 19:13יַעֲל֥וּ · approach
    No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.”
  23. Exodus 19:18וַיַּ֤עַל · rose
    Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke, because the LORD had descended on it in fire. And the smoke rose like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently.
  24. Exodus 19:20וַיַּ֥עַל · went up
    The LORD descended to the top of Mount Sinai and called Moses to the summit. So Moses went up,
  25. Exodus 19:23לַעֲלֹ֖ת · come up
    But Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, for You solemnly warned us, ‘Put a boundary around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”
  26. Exodus 19:24וְעָלִ֥יתָ · and bring; לַעֲלֹ֥ת · to come up
    And the LORD replied, “Go down and bring Aaron with you. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or He will break out against them.”
  27. Exodus 20:26תַעֲלֶ֥ה · go up
    And you must not go up to My altar on steps, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.’
  28. Exodus 24:1עֲלֵ֣ה · Come up
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to worship at a distance.
  29. Exodus 24:2יַעֲל֖וּ · go up
    Moses alone shall approach the LORD, but the others must not come near. And the people may not go up with him.”
  30. Exodus 24:5וַיַּֽעֲל֖וּ · and they offered
    Then he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.
  31. Exodus 24:9וַיַּ֥עַל · went up
    Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,
  32. Exodus 24:12עֲלֵ֥ה · Come up
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
  33. Exodus 24:13וַיַּ֥עַל · and went up
    So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant and went up on the mountain of God.
  34. Exodus 24:15וַיַּ֥עַל · went up
    When Moses went up on the mountain, the cloud covered it,
  35. Exodus 24:18וַיַּ֣עַל · as he went up
    Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
  36. Exodus 25:37וְהֶֽעֱלָה֙ · and set them up
    Make seven lamps and set them up on the lampstand so that they illuminate the area in front of it.
  37. Exodus 27:20לְהַעֲלֹ֥ת · burning
    And you are to command the Israelites to bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the light, to keep the lamps burning continually.
  38. Exodus 30:8וּבְהַעֲלֹ֨ת · sets up
    When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he must burn the incense perpetually before the LORD for the generations to come.
  39. Exodus 30:9תַעֲל֥וּ · offer
    On this altar you must not offer unauthorized incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor are you to pour a drink offering on it.
  40. Exodus 32:1הֶֽעֱלָ֙נוּ֙ · brought us up
    Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”
  41. Exodus 32:4הֶעֱל֖וּךָ · brought you up
    He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
  42. Exodus 32:6וַיַּעֲל֣וּ · offered
    So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.
  43. Exodus 32:7הֶעֱלֵ֖יתָ · you brought up
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.
  44. Exodus 32:8הֶֽעֱל֖וּךָ · brought you up
    How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
  45. Exodus 32:23הֶֽעֱלָ֙נוּ֙ · brought us up
    They told me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!’
  46. Exodus 32:30אֶֽעֱלֶ֣ה · I will go up
    The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
  47. Exodus 33:1עֲלֵ֣ה; הֶֽעֱלִ֖יתָ · you brought up
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt, and go to the land that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’
  48. Exodus 33:3אֶֽעֱלֶ֜ה · go
    Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”