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)


  • 1 Kings 10:29 - came up and went out And a chariot of Egypt for six for an hundred shekels of silver and an horse and fifty for an hundred and for the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Syria by their means and went out

  • 1 Kings 11:15 - For it came to pass when David in Edom was gone up and Joab the captain of the host to bury the slain after he had smitten every male in Edom

  • 1 Kings 12:18 - sent Then king Rehoboam Adoram who was over the tribute stoned and all Israel him with stones that he died Then king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot to flee to Jerusalem

  • 1 Kings 12:24 - Thus saith of the LORD Ye shall not go up nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel and returned every man to his house is according to the word from me They hearkened according to the word of the LORD and returned according to the word of the LORD

  • 1 Kings 12:27 - go up If this people to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem me and go again then shall the heart If this people unto their lord even unto Rehoboam king of Judah and they shall kill me and go again even unto Rehoboam king of Judah

  • 1 Kings 12:28 - took counsel Whereupon the king and made two calves of gold and said unto them It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem behold thy gods O Israel for you to go up out of the land of Egypt

  • 1 Kings 12:32 - So did And Jeroboam a feast month in the eighth on the fifteenth day month a feast that is in Judah and he offered upon the altar So did he in Bethel sacrificing unto the calves So did and he placed he in Bethel the priests of the high places So did

  • 1 Kings 12:33 - So he offered upon the altar and ordained in Bethel the fifteenth day even in the month of the eighth even in the month which he had devised of his own heart and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel So he offered upon the altar and burnt incense

  • 1 Kings 14:25 - year And it came to pass in the fifth king Rehoboam came up that Shishak king of Egypt against Jerusalem

  • 1 Kings 15:17 - went up And Baasha king of Israel against Judah and built Ramah that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king against Judah

  • 1 Kings 15:19 - There is a league and thy father and thy father behold I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold and break There is a league with Baasha king of Israel that he may depart

  • 1 Kings 16:17 - went up And Omri and all Israel from Gibbethon with him and they besieged Tirzah

  • 1 Kings 17:19 - And he said unto her Give me thy son And he took him out of her bosom and carried him up into a loft where he abode and laid him upon his own bed

  • 1 Kings 18:29 - was past And it came to pass when midday and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice that there was neither voice nor any to answer nor any that regarded

  • 1 Kings 18:36 - And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice came near that Elijah the prophet and said LORD God of Abraham Isaac and of Israel this day let it be known God and of Israel and that I am thy servant all these things at thy word and that I have done all these things at thy word

  • 1 Kings 18:41 - said And Elijah unto Ahab Get thee up eat and drink for there is a sound of abundance of rain

  • 1 Kings 18:42 - went up So Ahab to eat and to drink And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel and he cast himself down upon the earth and put his face between his knees

  • 1 Kings 18:43 - And he said to his servant And he went up and looked toward the sea And he went up and looked And he said There is nothing And he said Go again seven times

  • 1 Kings 18:44 - And it came to pass at the seventh time And he said cloud a little hand like a man's Behold there ariseth out of the sea And he said Behold there ariseth And he said unto Ahab Prepare thy chariot and get thee down stop that the rain

  • 1 Kings 20:1 - And Benhadad kings of Syria gathered all his host and there were thirty and two kings with him and horses and chariots and he went up and besieged Samaria and warred