עֹלָה
ʻôlâh · o-law'
a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)
Lexicon
Derivation: or עוֹלָה; feminine active participle of H5927 (עָלָה);
a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)
- a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending)
- usually, a holocaust (as going up in smoke)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: ascent, burnt offering (sacrifice), go up to. See also H5766 (עֶוֶל).
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 עֹלָה 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
287 occurrences · 287 OT · 0 NT · 137 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- for a burnt offering38 · 17%
- burnt offerings38 · 17%
- burnt offering27 · 12%
- the burnt offering21 · 10%
- a burnt offering17 · 8%
- of the burnt offering16 · 7%
- of burnt offering11 · 5%
- the burnt offerings6 · 3%
- for the burnt offering6 · 3%
- and the burnt offering5 · 2%
- his burnt offering4 · 2%
- your burnt offerings4 · 2%
- for burnt offerings3 · 1%
- with the burnt offering3 · 1%
- thy burnt offerings2 · 1%
- burnt sacrifices2 · 1%
- it is a burnt sacrifice2 · 1%
- this is the burnt offering2 · 1%
- by thy burnt offering2 · 1%
- the burnt sacrifice2 · 1%
- and burnt offerings2 · 1%
- of the burnt offerings2 · 1%
- it is a burnt offering1 · 0%
- thereon thy burnt offerings1 · 0%
- there for a burnt offering1 · 0%
Where it is used, by book.
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.