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H5927Gעָלָהa.lah

to ascend: risePart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 38
  2. 38
  3. 3
  4. 26
  5. 25
  6. 45
  7. 56
  8. 1
  9. 50
  10. 25
  11. 36
  12. 51
  13. 11
  14. 26
  15. 8
  16. 9
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 5
  19. 12
  20. 6
  21. 2
  22. 5
  23. 37
  24. 44
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 22
  27. 3
  28. 6
  29. 7
  30. 6
  31. 1
  32. 3
  33. 2
  34. 2
  35. 1
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. 1
  38. 5
  39. Malachi: 0

Renderings

JPS Tanakh 1917 is not aligned yet, so there are no renderings to show.

Other meanings of H5927

  • H5927Hעָלָהa.lahto ascend: establishH:VOccurrences: 153
  • H5927Iעָלָהa.lahto ascend: offer upH:VOccurrences: 85
  • H5927Jעָלָהa.lahto ascend: attackH:VOccurrences: 12
  • H5927Kעָלָהa.lahto ascend: copulateH:VOccurrences: 6
  • H5927Lעָלָהa.lahto ascend: dawnH:VOccurrences: 7
  • H5927Mעָלָהa.lahto ascend: regurgitateH:VOccurrences: 9

618 occurrences in 565 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. 2 Chronicles 24:23

    And it came to pass, when the year was come about, that the army of the Arameans came up against him; and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of

    עָלָ֣ה 'a.Lah “it came up”

  2. 2 Chronicles 25:21

    So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

    וַיַּ֨עַל (יַּ֨עַל) i.Ya.'al “he went up”

  3. 2 Chronicles 29:20

    Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

    וַיַּ֖עַל (יַּ֖עַל) i.Ya.'al “he went up”

  4. 2 Chronicles 34:30

    And the king went up to the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small; and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that

    וַיַּ֣עַל (יַּ֣עַל) i.Ya.'al “he went up”

  5. 2 Chronicles 35:20

    After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.

    עָלָ֞ה 'a.Lah “he came up”

  6. 2 Chronicles 36:6

    Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

    עָלָ֔ה 'a.Lah “he came up”

  7. 2 Chronicles 36:16

    but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against His people, till there was no remedy.

    עֲל֧וֹת a.Lot “came up”

  8. 2 Chronicles 36:23

    `Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD, the God of heaven, given me; and He hath charged me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whosoever there is among you of all His people--the LORD his God be w

    וְיָֽעַל׃ (יָֽעַל) Ya.'al “let him go up”

  9. Ezra 1:3

    Whosoever there is among you of all His people--his God be with him--let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel, He is the God who is in Jerusalem.

    וְיַ֕עַל (יַ֕עַל) Ya.'al “let him go up”

  10. Ezra 1:5

    Then rose up the heads of fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem.

    לַעֲל֣וֹת (עֲל֣וֹת) 'a.Lot “go up”

  11. Ezra 2:1

    Now these are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and that returned unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

    הָֽעֹלִים֙ (עֹלִים֙) 'o.Lim “came up”

  12. Ezra 2:59

    And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not tell their fathers' houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

    הָֽעֹלִים֙ (עֹלִים֙) 'o.Lim “came up”

  13. Ezra 7:6

    this Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.

    עָלָ֣ה 'a.Lah “he came up”

  14. Ezra 7:7

    And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

    וַיַּֽעֲל֣וּ (יַּֽעֲל֣וּ) i.ya.'a.Lu “they came up”

  15. Ezra 7:28

    and hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened according to the hand of the LORD my God upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

    לַעֲל֥וֹת (עֲל֥וֹת) 'a.Lot “go up”

  16. Ezra 8:1

    Now these are the heads of their fathers' houses, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

    הָעֹלִ֣ים (עֹלִ֣ים) 'o.Lim “came up”

  17. Nehemiah 2:15

    Then went I up in the night in the valley, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

    עֹלֶ֤ה 'o.Leh “going up”

  18. Nehemiah 3:19

    And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another portion, over against the ascent to the armoury at the Turning.

    עֲלֹ֥ת 'a.Lot “[the] going up of”

  19. Nehemiah 3:35

    Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said: 'Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.'

    יַעֲלֶ֣ה ya.'a.Leh “it will go up”

  20. Nehemiah 4:1

    But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;

    עָלְתָ֤ה 'al.Tah “it had gone up”

  21. Nehemiah 7:5

    And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of them that came up at the first, and I found written therein:

    הָעוֹלִ֣ים (עוֹלִ֣ים) 'o.Lim “[ones who] came up”

  22. Nehemiah 7:6

    These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and that returned unto Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;

    הָעֹלִים֙ (עֹלִים֙) 'o.Lim “came up”

  23. Nehemiah 7:61

    And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer; but they could not tell their fathers' houses, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel:

    הָֽעוֹלִים֙ (עוֹלִים֙) 'o.Lim “[ones who] came up”

  24. Nehemiah 12:1

    Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra;

    עָל֛וּ 'a.Lu “they came up”

  25. Nehemiah 12:37

    and by the fountain gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.

    עָלוּ֙ 'a.Lu “they went up”