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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. Joshua 19:47וַיַּעֲל֣וּ · they went up
    (Later, when the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and fought against Leshem, captured it, and put it to the sword. So they took possession of Leshem, settled there, and renamed it after their father Dan.)
  2. Joshua 22:12לַעֲל֥וֹת · to go
    And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.
  3. Joshua 22:23לְהַעֲל֨וֹת · to offer
    If we have built for ourselves an altar to turn away from Him and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings on it, or to sacrifice peace offerings on it, may the LORD Himself hold us accountable.
  4. Joshua 22:33לַעֲל֤וֹת · more about going
    The Israelites were satisfied with the report, and they blessed God and spoke no more about going to war against them to destroy the land where the Reubenites and Gadites lived.
  5. Joshua 24:17הַמַּעֲלֶ֨ה · brought
    For the LORD our God brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and performed these great signs before our eyes. He also protected us throughout our journey and among all the nations through which we traveled.
  6. Joshua 24:32הֶעֱל֨וּ · had brought up
    And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.
  7. Judges 1:1יַעֲלֶה־ · to go up
    After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of the LORD, “Who will be the first to go up and fight for us against the Canaanites?”
  8. Judges 1:2יַעֲלֶ֑ה · shall go up
    “Judah shall go up,” answered the LORD. “Indeed, I have delivered the land into their hands.”
  9. Judges 1:3עֲלֵ֧ה · Come up
    Then the men of Judah said to their brothers the Simeonites, “Come up with us to our allotted territory, and let us fight against the Canaanites. And we likewise will go with you to your territory.” So the Simeonites went with them.
  10. Judges 1:4וַיַּ֣עַל · attacked
    When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.
  11. Judges 1:16עָל֨וּ · went up
    Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.
  12. Judges 1:22וַיַּעֲל֧וּ · attacked
    The house of Joseph also attacked Bethel, and the LORD was with them.
  13. Judges 2:1וַיַּ֧עַל · went up; אַעֲלֶ֨ה · I brought you up
    Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,
  14. Judges 4:5וַיַּעֲל֥וּ · would go up
    And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.
  15. Judges 4:10וַיַּ֣עַל · followed; וַתַּ֥עַל · also went
    …where he summoned Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him.
  16. Judges 4:12עָלָ֛ה · had gone up
    When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up Mount Tabor,
  17. Judges 6:3וְעָלָ֨ה · would come up; וְעָל֥וּ · and invade
    Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,
  18. Judges 6:5יַעֲל֜וּ
    For the Midianites came with their livestock and their tents like a great swarm of locusts. They and their camels were innumerable, and they entered the land to ravage it.
  19. Judges 6:8הֶעֱלֵ֤יתִי · brought
    He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  20. Judges 6:13הֶעֱלָ֣נוּ · brought us up
    “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
  21. Judges 6:21וַתַּ֨עַל · flared
    Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.
  22. Judges 6:26וְהַעֲלִ֣יתָ · and offer
    Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.”
  23. Judges 6:28הֹֽעֲלָ֔ה · offered up
    When the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baal’s altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar.
  24. Judges 6:35וַֽיַּעֲל֖וּ · so that they came up
    Calling them to arms, Gideon sent messengers throughout Manasseh, as well as Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, so that they came up to meet him.
  25. Judges 8:8וַיַּ֤עַל · he went up
    From there he went up to Penuel and asked the same from them, but the men of Penuel gave the same response as the men of Succoth.
  26. Judges 8:11וַיַּ֣עַל · went up
    And Gideon went up by way of the caravan route east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he attacked their army, taking them by surprise.
  27. Judges 9:48וַיַּ֨עַל · went up
    …he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
  28. Judges 9:51וַֽיַּעֲל֖וּ · and went up
    But there was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.
  29. Judges 11:13בַּעֲלוֹת֣וֹ · came up
    The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”
  30. Judges 11:16בַּעֲלוֹתָ֣ם · when [Israel] came up
    But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
  31. Judges 11:31וְהַעֲלִיתִ֖הוּ · and I will offer it up
    …then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
  32. Judges 12:3עֲלִיתֶ֥ם · have you come
    When I saw that you would not save me, I risked my life and crossed over to the Ammonites, and the LORD delivered them into my hand. Why then have you come today to fight against me?”
  33. Judges 13:5יַעֲלֶ֣ה · shall touch
    For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
  34. Judges 13:16תַּעֲלֶ֑נָּה · offer it
    And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.
  35. Judges 13:19וַיַּ֥עַל · and offered them
    Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing.
  36. Judges 13:20בַעֲל֨וֹת · went up; וַיַּ֥עַל · ascended
    When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.
  37. Judges 14:2וַיַּ֗עַל · So he returned
    So he returned and told his father and mother, “I have seen a daughter of the Philistines in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”
  38. Judges 14:19וַיַּ֖עַל · Samson returned
    Then the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, killed thirty of their men, took their apparel, and gave their clothes to those who had solved the riddle. And burning with anger, Samson returned to his father’s house,
  39. Judges 15:6וַיַּעֲל֣וּ · went up
    “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
  40. Judges 15:9וַיַּעֲל֣וּ · went up
    Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi.
  41. Judges 15:10עֲלִיתֶ֣ם · have you attacked; עָלִ֔ינוּ · We have come
    “Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”
  42. Judges 15:13וַֽיַּעֲל֖וּהוּ · and led him up
    “No,” they answered, “we will not kill you, but we will tie you up securely and hand you over to them.” So they bound him with two new ropes and led him up from the rock.
  43. Judges 16:3וַֽיַּעֲלֵם֙ · and took them
    But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
  44. Judges 16:5וַיַּעֲל֨וּ · went
    The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
  45. Judges 16:8וַיַּעֲלוּ־ · brought
    So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.