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:
Nehemiah 12:1: "are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,"
Nehemiah 12:31: " Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed"
Nehemiah 12:37: "the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David,"
Job 1:5: "and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for"
Job 5:26: "thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season."
Job 6:18: "The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish."
Job 7:9: "so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no"
Job 20:6: "Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;"
Job 36:20: "not the night, when people are cut off in their place."
Job 36:33: "it, the cattle also concerning the vapor."
Job 42:8: "to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job"
Psalms 18:8: " There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals"
Psalms 24:3: "Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?"
Psalms 30:3: "O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down"
Psalms 40:2: " He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set"
Psalms 47:5: "God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet."
Psalms 47:9: "of the earth belong unto God: he is greatly exalted."
Psalms 51:19: "with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar."
Psalms 62:9: "men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they"
Psalms 66:15: " I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks"
Psalms 68:18: " Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious"
Psalms 71:20: "troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth."
Psalms 74:23: "of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually."
Psalms 78:21: "against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;"
Psalms 78:31: "The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel."
Psalms 81:10: "I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth"
Psalms 97:9: "above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods."
Psalms 102:24: "I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations."
Psalms 104:8: " They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded"
Psalms 107:26: " They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble."
Psalms 122:4: "Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel,"
Psalms 132:3: "into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;"
Psalms 135:7: "He causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain;"
Psalms 137:6: "cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above"
Proverbs 15:1: "wrath: but grievous words stir up anger."
Proverbs 21:22: "A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence"
Proverbs 24:31: "And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone"
Proverbs 25:7: "For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence"
Proverbs 26:9: "As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools."
Proverbs 30:4: "Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists?"
Proverbs 31:29: "have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all."
Ecclesiastes 3:21: "the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that"
Ecclesiastes 10:4: "If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place;"
Song of Solomon 3:6: "Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed"
Song of Solomon 4:2: "Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one"
Song of Solomon 6:6: "Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one"
Song of Solomon 7:8: "I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be"
Song of Solomon 8:5: "Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?"
Isaiah 2:3: "shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to"
Isaiah 5:6: "be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command"
