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:
2 Kings 2:23: " And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth"
2 Kings 2:23: "from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little"
2 Kings 2:23: "out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head."
2 Kings 2:23: "and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head."
2 Kings 3:7: "Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, and my horses as thy horses."
2 Kings 3:8: "And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way through the wilderness"
2 Kings 3:20: "And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way"
2 Kings 3:21: "heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered all"
2 Kings 3:27: "that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was"
2 Kings 4:21: " And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon"
2 Kings 4:34: " And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth,"
2 Kings 4:35: "and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched"
2 Kings 6:24: "all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria."
2 Kings 10:15: "me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot."
2 Kings 12:4: "and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring"
2 Kings 12:10: "scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money"
2 Kings 12:17: "Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took"
2 Kings 12:17: "it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem."
2 Kings 12:18: "it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem."
2 Kings 14:11: "Therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah"
2 Kings 15:14: "For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria,"
2 Kings 16:5: "of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged"
2 Kings 16:7: "I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king"
2 Kings 16:9: "unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive"
2 Kings 16:12: "and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon."
2 Kings 17:3: "Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant,"
2 Kings 17:4: "So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria,"
2 Kings 17:5: "Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged"
2 Kings 17:5: "came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three"
2 Kings 17:7: "had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt,"
2 Kings 17:36: "But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land"
2 Kings 18:9: "that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged"
2 Kings 18:13: "Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced"
2 Kings 18:17: "with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came"
2 Kings 18:17: "And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper"
2 Kings 18:25: "Am I now come up without the LORD against this place"
2 Kings 18:25: "to destroy it? The LORD said to me, Go up against this land,"
2 Kings 19:14: "of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread"
2 Kings 19:23: "With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon,"
2 Kings 19:28: "thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose,"
2 Kings 20:5: "behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the LORD."
2 Kings 20:8: "that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the LORD the third day?"
2 Kings 22:4: " Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver"
2 Kings 23:2: "And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all"
2 Kings 23:9: "Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD"
2 Kings 23:29: "Pharaoh Necho king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to"
2 Kings 24:1: "Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three"
2 Kings 24:10: "of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged."
2 Kings 25:6: "So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon"
1 Chronicles 11:6: "So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief."
