{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5920",
  "lemma": "עַל",
  "transliteration": "ʻal",
  "definition": "properly, the top; specifically, the highest (i.e. God); also (adverb) aloft, to Jehovah",
  "kjv": "above, high, most High.",
  "occurrences": 4,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H5927",
      "lemma": "עָלָה",
      "transliteration": "ʻâlâh",
      "meaning": "to ascend, intransitively",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H5927"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "עַל, עָ֑ל",
    "I. subst. height",
    "II. As prep. upon, and hence on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against",
    "1. Upon, of the substratum upon which an object in any way rests, or on which an action is performed",
    "a. —",
    "(a). of clothing, etc., which any one wears",
    "(b). With verbs of covering or protecting, even though the cover or veil be not over or above the thing covered, but around or before it",
    "b. Of what rests heavily upon a person, or is a burden to him",
    "c. Of a duty, payment, care, etc., imposed upon a person, or devolving on him",
    "d. על is used idiom. to give pathos to the expression of an emotion, by emphasizing the person who is its subject, and who, as it were, feels it acting upon him",
    "e. חָיָה עַל to live upon (as upon a foundation or support)",
    "f. Of the ground or basis, on which a thing is done",
    "2. It expresses excess",
    "3. It denotes elevation or pre-eminence",
    "4. It expresses addition",
    "5. It expresses the idea of being extended, or suspended over anything, without however being in contact with it, above, over",
    "6. From the sense of inclining or impending over, על comes to denote contiguity or proximity, Engl. by (or sts. on)",
    "7. In connection with verbs of motion (actual or fig.)",
    "8. By writers of the silver age, על is sts. used with the force of a dative",
    "9. With other particles:",
    "III. As conj.",
    "a. עַל אֲשֶׁר because that",
    "b. עַל כִּי similar in meaning, but less frequent",
    "c. עַל alone:",
    "(a). because",
    "(b). notwithstanding that, although",
    "IV. Compounds:",
    "1. with כְּ (rare and late)",
    "a. as concerning, as upon",
    "b. the like of their deeds is the like of (that which) he will repay",
    "2. מֵעַל from upon, from over, from by"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 23:1",
      "text": "Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/23?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Hosea 7:16",
      "text": "They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/7?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Hosea 11:7",
      "text": "My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/11?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 50:4",
      "text": "He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/50?v=4"
    }
  ],
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