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:
Deuteronomy 34:1: "And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo,"
Joshua 2:6: "But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon"
Joshua 2:8: "they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;"
Joshua 4:16: "that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan."
Joshua 4:17: "the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan."
Joshua 4:18: "the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles"
Joshua 4:19: "And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped"
Joshua 6:5: "shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before"
Joshua 6:15: "on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city"
Joshua 6:20: "fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took"
Joshua 7:2: "on the east side of Bethel, and spoke unto them, saying, Go up and view"
Joshua 7:2: "Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed"
Joshua 7:3: "him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand"
Joshua 7:3: "three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not"
Joshua 7:4: " So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled"
Joshua 7:6: "he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads."
Joshua 7:24: "and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor."
Joshua 8:1: "of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand"
Joshua 8:3: "and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty"
Joshua 8:10: "and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before"
Joshua 8:11: "even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city,"
Joshua 8:20: "and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power"
Joshua 8:21: "and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men"
Joshua 8:31: "no man hath lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed"
Joshua 10:4: " Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace"
Joshua 10:5: "the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped"
Joshua 10:6: "not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save"
Joshua 10:7: "So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war"
Joshua 10:9: "therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night."
Joshua 10:33: "Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua"
Joshua 10:36: "And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron;"
Joshua 11:17: "Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley"
Joshua 12:7: "of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave"
Joshua 14:8: "Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt:"
Joshua 15:3: "the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea,"
Joshua 15:3: "on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass"
Joshua 15:6: "And the border went up to Beth-hogla, and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah; and the border"
Joshua 15:6: "by the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son"
Joshua 15:7: "And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking"
Joshua 15:8: "And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south"
Joshua 15:8: "of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain"
Joshua 15:15: " And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir"
Joshua 16:1: "unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount"
Joshua 17:15: "them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there"
Joshua 18:11: "of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth"
Joshua 18:12: "from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side,"
Joshua 18:12: "the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out"
Joshua 19:10: "And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the border of their inheritance"
Joshua 19:11: "And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to"
Joshua 19:12: "the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,"
