# H5921 עַל

עַל (ʻal), Strong’s H5921: 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)…

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*ʻal* — 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…

Occurs 5771 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=2) — The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the…
- [Genesis 1:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=7) — God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse…
- [Genesis 1:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=11) — God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their…
- [Genesis 1:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=15) — and let them be for lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth;” and it was so.
- [Genesis 1:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=17) — God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light to the earth,
- [Genesis 1:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=20) — God said, “Let the waters abound with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the…
- [Genesis 1:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=26) — God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over…
- [Genesis 1:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=28) — God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish…
- [Genesis 1:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=29) — God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree…
- [Genesis 1:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=30) — To every animal of the earth, and to every bird of the sky, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there…