# H5927 עָלָה

עָלָה (ʻâlâh), Strong’s H5927: to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative KJV: arise (up), (cause to)…

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*ʻâlâh* — to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative

KJV: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause…

Occurs 889 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָלָה 890 vb. go up, ascend, climb
- Qal
- 1 of persons, go up, ascend, in local relations
- 2 go up, in personal relations
- 3 of animals, go or come up
- 4 of vegetation, spring up, grow, shoot forth
- 5 of natural phenom., go up, rise
- 6 of inanimate things, instead of passive construction
- 7 of thoughts
- 8 come up before God, arrogance
- 9 go up, extend, of boundary
- 10 excel
- Niph.
- a be brought up
- b be taken up
- (1) pass., be taken up, away
- (2) reflex., take oneself away from, get up from
- 2 reflex.: take oneself away
- 3 be exalted, of God
- Hiph.
- 1 bring up persons
- 2 in personal relations
- 3 bring up animals
- 4 cause to ascend
- 5 mentally
- 6 offer a present; bring up tithe to
- 7 exalt
- 8 cause to ascend (in flame), offer sacrifice
- Hoph.
- 1 be carried away
- 2 be taken up into, inserted in
- 3 be offered
- Hithp. lift oneself

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=6) — but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
- [Genesis 8:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=20) — Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings…
- [Genesis 13:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=1) — Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South.
- [Genesis 17:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/17?v=22) — When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
- [Genesis 19:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=15) — When the morning came, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are…
- [Genesis 19:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=28) — He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up…
- [Genesis 19:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=30) — 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…
- [Genesis 22:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=2) — He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a…
- [Genesis 22:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=13) — Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham…
- [Genesis 24:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=16) — The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her…