Strong's #4608: ma`aleh (pronounced mah-al-eh')
from 5927; an elevation, i.e. (concretely) acclivity or platform; abstractly (the relation or state) a rise or (figuratively) priority:--ascent, before, chiefest, cliff, that goeth up, going up, hill, mounting up, stairs.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ma‛ăleh
1) ascent, incline
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H5927
Usage:
This word is used 19 times:
Numbers 34:4: "And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin:"
Joshua 10:10: "at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah,"
Joshua 15:7: "toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side"
Joshua 18:17: "toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone"
Judges 1:36: "And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward."
Judges 8:13: "returned from battle before the sun"
1 Samuel 9:11: "And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out"
2 Samuel 15:30: "And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered,"
2 Kings 9:27: "him also in the chariot. And they did so at the going up to Gur, which is by Ibleam."
2 Chronicles 20:16: "against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook,"
2 Chronicles 32:33: "with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchers of the sons of David: and all"
Nehemiah 9:4: "Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah,"
Nehemiah 12:37: "the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house"
Isaiah 15:5: "a heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for"
Jeremiah 33:6: "Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace"
Jeremiah 48:5: "For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down"
Ezekiel 40:31: "and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps."
Ezekiel 40:34: "the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps."
Ezekiel 40:37: "the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps."
