Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H5927: עָלָה (ʻâlâh) Definition

Strong's number
H5927
Lemma
עָלָה
Transliteration
ʻâlâh
Pronunciation
aw-law'
Strong's definition
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, [phrase] 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, [idiom] mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, [phrase] 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. a primitive root;

814 instances of the word עָלָה ʻâlâh (H5927)


  • Genesis 19:28 - And he looked and toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and beheld went up and lo the smoke all the land and lo the smoke of a furnace

  • Genesis 19:30 - went up And Lot in Zoar and dwelt in the mountain and his two daughters with him for he feared and dwelt in Zoar and dwelt in a cave and his two daughters

  • Genesis 22:2 - And he said Take now thy son thine only whom thou lovest son Isaac into the land of Moriah and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains And he said

  • Genesis 22:13 - lifted up And Abraham his eyes and looked him a ram and behold behind caught in a thicket by his horns And Abraham and took him a ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son

  • Genesis 24:16 - And the damsel fair to look upon was very a virgin neither had any man known her and she went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up

  • Genesis 26:23 - And he went up from thence to Beersheba

  • Genesis 28:12 - And he dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of God ascending and descending

  • Genesis 31:10 - And it came to pass at the time conceived that the cattle that I lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream and behold the rams which leaped that the cattle were ringstraked speckled and grisled

  • Genesis 31:12 - And he said Lift up now thine eyes and see all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked speckled and grisled and see all that Laban doeth

  • Genesis 32:24 - was left And Jacob alone and there wrestled with him until the breaking of the day

  • Genesis 32:26 - And he said I will not let thee go breaketh for the day And he said I will not let thee go except thou bless

  • Genesis 35:1 - said And God unto Jacob Arise go up to Bethel and dwell there and make there an altar unto God that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother

  • Genesis 35:3 - And let us arise and go up to Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way which I went

  • Genesis 35:13 - went up And God from him in the place where he talked

  • Genesis 37:28 - Then there passed by Midianites and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver and they brought Joseph into Egypt

  • Genesis 38:12 - And in process of time died the daughter of Shuah wife Judah's was comforted Judah's and went up unto his sheepshearers Hirah he and his friend the Adullamite to Timnath

  • Genesis 38:13 - And it was told Tamar saying Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep

  • Genesis 40:10 - And in the vine were three branches and it was as though it budded shot forth and her blossoms thereof brought forth ripe and the clusters grapes

  • Genesis 41:2 - out of the river And behold there came up seven kine well favoured and fatfleshed and they fed in a meadow

  • Genesis 41:3 - And behold seven kine other came up after them of the river ill favoured and leanfleshed and stood by kine upon the brink of the river