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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. Numbers 16:24הֵֽעָלוּ֙ · to move away
    “Tell the congregation to move away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”
  2. Numbers 16:27וַיֵּעָל֗וּ · So they moved away
    So they moved away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Meanwhile, Dathan and Abiram had come out and stood at the entrances to their tents with their wives and children and infants.
  3. Numbers 19:2עָלָ֥ה · been placed
    “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.
  4. Numbers 20:5הֶֽעֱלִיתֻ֙נוּ֙ · have you led us up
    Why have you led us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is not a place of grain, figs, vines, or pomegranates—and there is no water to drink!”
  5. Numbers 20:19נַעֲלֶה֒ · We will stay
    “We will stay on the main road,” the Israelites replied, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay for it. There will be no problem; only let us pass through on foot.”
  6. Numbers 20:25וְהַ֥עַל · and bring them up
    Take Aaron and his son Eleazar and bring them up Mount Hor.
  7. Numbers 20:27וַֽיַּעֲלוּ֙ · and they climbed
    So Moses did as the LORD had commanded, and they climbed Mount Hor in the sight of the whole congregation.
  8. Numbers 21:5הֶֽעֱלִיתֻ֙נוּ֙ · have you led us up
    …and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
  9. Numbers 21:17עֲלִ֥י · Spring up
    Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!
  10. Numbers 21:33וַֽיַּעֲל֔וּ · and went up
    Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.
  11. Numbers 22:41וַֽיַּעֲלֵ֖הוּ · and brought him
    The next morning, Balak took Balaam and brought him up to Bamoth-baal. From there he could see the outskirts of the camp of the people.
  12. Numbers 23:2וַיַּ֨עַל · offered
    So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and Balak and Balaam offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
  13. Numbers 23:4וָאַ֛עַל · I have offered
    …and God met with him. “I have set up seven altars,” Balaam said, “and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”
  14. Numbers 23:14וַיַּ֛עַל · and offered
    So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
  15. Numbers 23:30וַיַּ֛עַל · and he offered
    So Balak did as Balaam had instructed, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
  16. Numbers 27:12עֲלֵ֛ה · Go up
    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites.
  17. Numbers 32:9וַֽיַּעֲל֞וּ · For when [your fathers] went up
    For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.
  18. Numbers 32:11הָעֹלִ֣ים · who came
    ‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
  19. Numbers 33:38וַיַּעַל֩ · climbed
    At the LORD’s command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.
  20. Deuteronomy 1:21עֲלֵ֣ה · Go up
    See, the LORD your God has placed the land before you. Go up and take possession of it as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”
  21. Deuteronomy 1:22נַעֲלֶה־ · to follow
    Then all of you approached me and said, “Let us send men ahead of us to search out the land and bring us word of what route to follow and which cities to enter.”
  22. Deuteronomy 1:24וַיַּעֲל֣וּ · and went up
    They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land.
  23. Deuteronomy 1:26לַעֲלֹ֑ת · to go up
    But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God.
  24. Deuteronomy 1:28עֹלִ֗ים · go
    Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
  25. Deuteronomy 1:41נַעֲלֶה֙ · will go up; לַעֲלֹ֥ת · to go up
    “We have sinned against the LORD,” you replied. “We will go up and fight, as the LORD our God has commanded us.” Then each of you put on his weapons of war, thinking it easy to go up into the hill country.
  26. Deuteronomy 1:42תַֽעֲלוּ֙ · to go up
    But the LORD said to me, “Tell them not to go up and fight, for I am not with you to keep you from defeat by your enemies.”
  27. Deuteronomy 1:43וַתַּעֲל֥וּ · went up
    So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. You rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country.
  28. Deuteronomy 3:1וַנַּ֔עַל · and went up
    Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.
  29. Deuteronomy 3:27עֲלֵ֣ה׀ · Go
    Go to the top of Pisgah and look to the west and north and south and east. See the land with your own eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan.
  30. Deuteronomy 5:5עֲלִיתֶ֥ם · go up
    At that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. And He said:
  31. Deuteronomy 9:9בַּעֲלֹתִ֣י · When I went up
    When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
  32. Deuteronomy 9:23עֲלוּ֙ · Go up
    And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.
  33. Deuteronomy 10:1וַעֲלֵ֥ה · come up
    At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
  34. Deuteronomy 10:3וָאַ֣עַל · and went up
    So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.
  35. Deuteronomy 12:13תַּעֲלֶ֖ה · to offer
    Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see;
  36. Deuteronomy 12:14תַּעֲלֶ֣ה · you must offer
    …you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.
  37. Deuteronomy 14:6מַעֲלַ֥ת · and that chews
    You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.
  38. Deuteronomy 14:7מִמַּֽעֲלֵ֣י · of those that chew; מַעֲלֵ֧ה · chew
    But of those that chew the cud or have a completely divided hoof, you are not to eat the following: the camel, the rabbit, or the rock badger. Although they chew the cud, they do not have a divided hoof. They are unclean for you,
  39. Deuteronomy 17:8וְעָלִ֔יתָ · you must go up
    If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
  40. Deuteronomy 20:1הַמַּֽעַלְךָ֖ · who brought you
    When you go out to war against your enemies and see horses, chariots, and an army larger than yours, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, is with you.
  41. Deuteronomy 25:7וְעָלְתָה֩ · is to go
    But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”
  42. Deuteronomy 27:6וְהַעֲלִ֤יתָ · and offer
    You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God.
  43. Deuteronomy 28:43יַעֲלֶ֥ה · will rise
    The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
  44. Deuteronomy 28:61יַעְלֵ֤ם · bring
    The LORD will also bring upon you every sickness and plague not recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
  45. Deuteronomy 29:23יַעֲלֶ֥ה · growing
    All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
  46. Deuteronomy 30:12יַעֲלֶה־ · will ascend
    It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ‘Who will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?’
  47. Deuteronomy 32:49עֲלֵ֡ה · Go up
    “Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
  48. Deuteronomy 32:50עֹלֶ֣ה · climb
    And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.