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Strong's #5921: `al (pronounced al)

properly, the same as 5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications (as follow):--above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, X as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, X both and, by (reason of), X had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-)on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, X with.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛al

1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against (preposition)

1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards

1b) above, beyond, over (of excess)

1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence)

1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition)

1e) over (of suspension or extension)

1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity)

1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion)

1h) to (as a dative)

2) because that, because, notwithstanding, although (conjunction)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: properly, the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following)



Usage:

This word is used 5681 times:

Job 6:3: "it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up."
Job 6:5: "or loweth the ox over his fodder?"
Job 6:16: "Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:"
Job 6:27: "Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend."
Job 6:27: "ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend."
Job 6:28: "Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie."
Job 7:1: "Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?"
Job 7:12: "that thou settest a watch over"
Job 7:20: "me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to"
Job 8:6: "surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous."
Job 8:9: "nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)"
Job 8:15: "He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure."
Job 8:16: "the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden."
Job 8:17: "His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones."
Job 9:8: "spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea."
Job 9:11: "Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not."
Job 9:22: "This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect"
Job 9:26: "ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey."
Job 9:33: "between us, that might lay his hand upon us both."
Job 9:34: "Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify"
Job 10:1: "of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul."
Job 10:2: "Do not condemn me; show me wherefore thou contendest"
Job 10:3: "the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?"
Job 12:14: "he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening."
Job 12:21: "He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty."
Job 13:11: "make you afraid? and his dread fall upon"
Job 13:13: "that I may speak, and let come on me what"
Job 13:14: " Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?"
Job 13:21: "Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid."
Job 13:26: "For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth."
Job 13:27: "unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet."
Job 14:3: "And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with"
Job 14:6: "Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day."
Job 14:16: "my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?"
Job 14:17: "My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity."
Job 14:22: "But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn."
Job 14:22: "upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn."
Job 15:27: "with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks."
Job 16:4: "in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head"
Job 16:4: "against you, and shake mine head at"
Job 16:9: "me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes"
Job 16:10: "They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together"
Job 16:10: "reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against"
Job 16:11: "me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked."
Job 16:13: "His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out"
Job 16:14: "He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant."
Job 16:14: "upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant."
Job 16:15: "I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust."
Job 16:16: "is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;"
Job 16:17: "Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure."









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