Strong's #5927: `alah (pronounced aw-law')
a primitive root; to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow):--arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + 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, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + 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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
‛âlâh
1) to go up, ascend, climb
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to go up, ascend
1a2) to meet, visit, follow, depart, withdraw, retreat
1a3) to go up, come up (of animals)
1a4) to spring up, grow, shoot forth (of vegetation)
1a5) to go up, go up over, rise (of natural phenomenon)
1a6) to come up (before God)
1a7) to go up, go up over, extend (of boundary)
1a8) to excel, be superior to
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be taken up, be brought up, be taken away
1b2) to take oneself away
1b3) to be exalted
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to bring up, cause to ascend or climb, cause to go up
1c2) to bring up, bring against, take away
1c3) to bring up, draw up, train
1c4) to cause to ascend
1c5) to rouse, stir up (mentally)
1c6) to offer, bring up (of gifts)
1c7) to exalt
1c8) to cause to ascend, offer
1d) (Hophal)
1d1) to be carried away, be led up
1d2) to be taken up into, be inserted in
1d3) to be offered
1e) (Hithpael) to lift oneself
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 890 times:
1 Kings 9:24: "But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto"
1 Kings 9:25: "times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar"
1 Kings 10:5: "and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no"
1 Kings 10:16: "six hundred shekels of gold went to one target."
1 Kings 10:17: "three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king"
1 Kings 10:29: "And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver,"
1 Kings 11:15: "and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten"
1 Kings 12:18: "Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem."
1 Kings 12:24: "saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren"
1 Kings 12:27: "If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD"
1 Kings 12:28: "and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods,"
1 Kings 12:28: "behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt."
1 Kings 12:32: "of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So"
1 Kings 12:33: " So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth"
1 Kings 12:33: "of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar,"
1 Kings 14:25: "that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:"
1 Kings 15:17: "And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built"
1 Kings 15:19: "Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from"
1 Kings 16:17: "And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged"
1 Kings 17:19: "thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where"
1 Kings 18:29: "was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor"
1 Kings 18:36: "And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD"
1 Kings 18:41: "And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound"
1 Kings 18:42: "So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top"
1 Kings 18:42: "to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down"
1 Kings 18:43: "And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea."
1 Kings 18:43: "look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing."
1 Kings 18:44: "at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea,"
1 Kings 18:44: "out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab,"
1 Kings 20:1: "and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses, and chariots: and he went up and besieged"
1 Kings 20:22: "of the year the king of Syria will come up against"
1 Kings 20:26: "numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel."
1 Kings 20:33: "him. Then Ben-hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot."
1 Kings 22:6: "Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for the Lord shall deliver"
1 Kings 22:12: "prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver"
1 Kings 22:15: "or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver"
1 Kings 22:20: "shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one said"
1 Kings 22:29: "and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead."
1 Kings 22:35: "And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot"
2 Kings 1:3: "Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria,"
2 Kings 1:4: "from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die."
2 Kings 1:6: "And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto"
2 Kings 1:6: "unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go,"
2 Kings 1:6: "come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die."
2 Kings 1:7: "manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you"
2 Kings 1:9: "him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on"
2 Kings 1:13: "And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees"
2 Kings 1:16: "thou shalt not come down off that bed on which thou art gone up, but"
2 Kings 2:1: "And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah"
2 Kings 2:11: "them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven."
