עָלָה
ʻâlâh · aw-law'
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
- to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount)
- used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, [phrase] 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, [idiom] mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, [phrase] 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.
Letters
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to see and know › authority, the one who leads › to reveal, behold
To see and know of authority, the one who leads that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of עָלָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
890 occurrences · 890 OT · 0 NT · 488 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- went up79 · 25%
- came up41 · 13%
- go up31 · 10%
- and went up19 · 6%
- and offered16 · 5%
- shall come up14 · 4%
- come up12 · 4%
- is come up10 · 3%
- and he went up10 · 3%
- to go up9 · 3%
- and they went up8 · 3%
- to come up7 · 2%
- brought up7 · 2%
- to offer6 · 2%
- went5 · 2%
- to bring up5 · 2%
- up5 · 2%
- get thee up5 · 2%
- that went up5 · 2%
- was taken up5 · 2%
- i will go up5 · 2%
- shall i go up4 · 1%
- that goeth up4 · 1%
- offered4 · 1%
- come4 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
- Genesis51
- Exodus62
- Leviticus14
- Numbers42
- Deuteronomy32
- Joshua55
- Judges72
- Ruth1
- 1 Samuel71
- 2 Samuel36
- 1 Kings53
- 2 Kings59
- 1 Chronicles24
- 2 Chronicles53
- Ezra14
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.