{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5921",
  "lemma": "עַל",
  "transliteration": "ʻal",
  "definition": "above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications",
  "kjv": "above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of…",
  "occurrences": 5771,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "כִּי עַל כֵּן forasmuch as",
    "עַל subst",
    "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": "Genesis 1:2",
      "text": "The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:7",
      "text": "God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:11",
      "text": "God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:15",
      "text": "and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:17",
      "text": "God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:20",
      "text": "God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:26",
      "text": "God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:28",
      "text": "God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:29",
      "text": "God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:30",
      "text": "To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=30"
    }
  ],
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