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 Samuel 7:9: "a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel"
1 Samuel 7:10: "And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel:"
1 Samuel 8:8: "which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt"
1 Samuel 9:11: "And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out"
1 Samuel 9:13: "ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people"
1 Samuel 9:13: "and afterwards they eat that be bidden. Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find"
1 Samuel 9:14: " And they went up into the city: and when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel"
1 Samuel 9:14: "Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place."
1 Samuel 9:19: "and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with"
1 Samuel 9:26: "And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul"
1 Samuel 10:3: "and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel,"
1 Samuel 10:8: "I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings:"
1 Samuel 10:18: "God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt,"
1 Samuel 11:1: "Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all"
1 Samuel 12:6: "Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land"
1 Samuel 13:5: "the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth-aven."
1 Samuel 13:9: "a burnt offering to me, and peace offerings. And he offered the burnt offering."
1 Samuel 13:10: "And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul"
1 Samuel 13:12: "unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering."
1 Samuel 13:15: "And Samuel arose, and got him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul"
1 Samuel 14:9: "you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto"
1 Samuel 14:10: "But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the LORD"
1 Samuel 14:10: "thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand:"
1 Samuel 14:12: "Jonathan and his armorbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing."
1 Samuel 14:12: "And Jonathan said unto his armorbearer, Come up after me: for"
1 Samuel 14:13: "And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armorbearer"
1 Samuel 14:21: "before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they"
1 Samuel 14:46: "Then Saul went up from following the Philistines: and the Philistines went to their own place."
1 Samuel 15:2: "how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt."
1 Samuel 15:6: "to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites"
1 Samuel 15:34: "went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul."
1 Samuel 17:23: "talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath,"
1 Samuel 17:25: "Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel"
1 Samuel 17:25: "to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth"
1 Samuel 19:15: "David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay"
1 Samuel 23:19: " Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David"
1 Samuel 23:29: "And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strongholds at En-gedi."
1 Samuel 24:22: "went home; but David and his men got them up unto the hold."
1 Samuel 25:5: "and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal,"
1 Samuel 25:13: "girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred"
1 Samuel 25:35: "that which she had brought him, and said unto her, Go up in peace to thine house; see,"
1 Samuel 27:8: "And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites:"
1 Samuel 28:8: "I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto"
1 Samuel 28:11: "the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel."
1 Samuel 28:11: "Whom shall I bring up unto thee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel."
1 Samuel 28:13: "Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth."
1 Samuel 28:14: "is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul"
1 Samuel 28:15: "Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore"
1 Samuel 29:9: "of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle."
1 Samuel 29:11: "the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel."
