# H4609 מַעֲלָה

מַעֲלָה (maʻălâh), Strong’s H4609: elevation, i.e. the act (literally, a journey to a higher place, figuratively, a thought arising), or (concretely) the condition (literally, a step or… KJV: things…

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*maʻălâh* — elevation, i.e. the act (literally, a journey to a higher place, figuratively, a thought arising), or (concretely) the condition (literally, a step or…

KJV: things that come up, (high) degree, deal, go up, stair, step, story.

Occurs 47 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַעֲלָה 46 n.f. step, stair
- 1 step, stair
- 2 steps (forming sun-dial)
- 3 stories of heaven
- 4 ascent
- 5 song of ascents
- מַעֲלָה n.f
- [מַעֲלָה] n.f. what comes up;—pl. cstr. Ez 11:5

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 20:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=26) — You shall not go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’
- [Joshua 10:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/10?v=10) — The LORD confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of…
- [1 Kings 10:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/10?v=19) — There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were armrests on either side…
- [1 Kings 10:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/10?v=20) — Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps. Nothing like it was made in any kingdom.
- [2 Kings 9:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/9?v=13) — Then they hurried, and each man took his cloak, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the shofar…
- [2 Kings 20:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/20?v=9) — Isaiah said, “This will be the sign to you from the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he has spoken: should…
- [2 Kings 20:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/20?v=10) — Hezekiah answered, “It is a light thing for the shadow to go forward ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backward…
- [2 Kings 20:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/20?v=11) — Isaiah the prophet cried to the LORD; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the…
- [Isaiah 38:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/38?v=8) — Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return…
- [Ezekiel 11:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/11?v=5) — The LORD’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘The LORD says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I…