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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 Chronicles 18:19: "Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spoke"
2 Chronicles 18:28: "and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead."
2 Chronicles 18:34: "And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up"
2 Chronicles 20:16: "go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end"
2 Chronicles 20:34: "the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel."
2 Chronicles 21:17: " And they came up into Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found"
2 Chronicles 23:18: "in the house of the LORD, to offer the burnt offerings of the LORD, as it is written in the law"
2 Chronicles 24:13: "So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set"
2 Chronicles 24:14: "of the LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver."
2 Chronicles 24:14: "and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD"
2 Chronicles 24:23: "of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah"
2 Chronicles 25:21: "So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah"
2 Chronicles 29:7: "burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel."
2 Chronicles 29:20: "the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 29:21: "And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 29:27: "And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began,"
2 Chronicles 29:29: "And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshiped."
2 Chronicles 32:5: "all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall"
2 Chronicles 34:30: "And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants"
2 Chronicles 35:14: "the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night;"
2 Chronicles 35:16: "day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 35:20: "Necho king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish by Euphrates:"
2 Chronicles 36:6: "Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry"
2 Chronicles 36:16: "his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no"
2 Chronicles 36:17: " Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword"
2 Chronicles 36:23: "is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up."
Ezra 1:3: "his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah,"
Ezra 1:5: "whose spirit God had raised, to go up to build the house of the LORD"
Ezra 1:11: "hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon"
Ezra 1:11: "bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem."
Ezra 2:1: "Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom"
Ezra 2:59: "And these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer:"
Ezra 3:2: "the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law"
Ezra 3:3: "was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD,"
Ezra 3:6: "From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD."
Ezra 4:2: "unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither."
Ezra 7:6: "This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe"
Ezra 7:7: " And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers,"
Ezra 7:28: "me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with"
Ezra 8:1: "are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign"
Nehemiah 2:15: " Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back,"
Nehemiah 3:19: "another piece over against the going up to the armory at the turning"
Nehemiah 4:3: "build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall."
Nehemiah 4:7: "that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began"
Nehemiah 4:21: "and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars"
Nehemiah 7:5: "And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written"
Nehemiah 7:6: "These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried awa, whom"
Nehemiah 7:61: "And these were they which went up also from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer:"
Nehemiah 9:18: "This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great"
Nehemiah 10:38: "when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house"









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