עָלָה
a.lah (H5927G)
to ascend: rise
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# עָלָה (alah): Ascent and Elevation in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word עָלָה (alah) fundamentally denotes movement in an upward direction, with the primary sense of "to ascend" or "to rise." With 618 occurrences throughout the Bible, this verb represents one of the language's most frequently used directional terms. The sheer frequency of its use suggests that the concept of upward movement—whether literal or metaphorical—held considerable importance in biblical thought and narrative. The word's broad range of occurrences across 618 biblical instances indicates that עָלָה functioned both literally and figuratively. Beyond its basic physical meaning of ascending or rising, the verb likely carried extended applications to abstract concepts involving elevation, advancement, or increase. This semantic flexibility allowed biblical authors to employ a single root word to describe everything from persons climbing mountains or ascending stairs to more abstract notions of rise and progression. The consistency of this usage pattern across numerous texts demonstrates that עָלָה was the standard biblical Hebrew term for expressing upward motion and related concepts of elevation.
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but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.
When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.
The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
He went up from there to Beersheba.
He dreamed and saw a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.
After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
Tamar was told, “Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”
and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.
Behold, seven cattle came up out of the river. They were sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.
Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.
He slept and dreamed a second time; and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.
and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass;
and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.
I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good;
The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
When we came up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Now therefore, please let your servant stay instead of the boy, my lord’s slave; and let the boy go up with his brothers.
For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn’t with me?—lest I see the evil that will come on my father.”
Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says, “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don’t wait.
They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.
Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’ ”
Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”
Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,
There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.
Joseph returned into Egypt—he, and his brothers, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
Come, let’s deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies and fight against us, and escape out of the land.”
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
The river will swarm with frogs, which will go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.
The frogs shall come up both on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.” ’ ”
Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’ ”
Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
The magicians did the same thing with their enchantments, and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.”
The locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt. They were very grievous. Before them there were no such locusts as they, nor will there ever be again.
A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.
In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp.
When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground.
So Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
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