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To ascend

עָלָהStrong’s H5927

alah (a-lah)

Appears in 817 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Alah is the Hebrew word usually translated “went up”, “go up” and “offered up”. It appears in 817 verses of the Old Testament.

“Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.”
Daniel 8:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. To go up, ascend, climb(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
  • and he went up 70
  • go up 48
  • and they went up 39
  • to go up 21
  • and he offered up 18
  • and it went up 16
  • it will go up 16
  • coming up 15

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 1 Samuel 63
  • Jeremiah 63
  • Judges 60
  • Exodus 59
  • 2 Kings 51
  • 2 Chronicles 50

36 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 817 verses, by book
Ruth 1
4:1
Ecclesiastes 2
3:2110:4
Song of Solomon 5
3:64:26:67:88:5
Lamentations 2
1:142:10
Daniel 3
8:38:811:23
Obadiah 1
1:21
Micah 3
2:134:26:4
Nahum 3
2:12:73:3
Habakkuk 2
1:153:16
Haggai 1
1:8
Hebrew dictionary

עָלָה alah · to ascend

: rise/go 1) to go up, ascend, climb 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go up, ascend 1a2) to meet, visit, follow, depart, withdraw, retreat 1a3) to go up, come up (of animals) 1a4) to spring up, grow, shoot forth (of vegetation) 1a5) to go up, go up over, rise (of natural phenomenon) 1a6) to come up (before God) 1a7) to go up, go up over, extend (of boundary) 1a8) to excel, be superior to 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be taken up, be brought up, be taken away 1b2) to take oneself away 1b3) to be exalted 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to bring up, cause to ascend or climb, cause to go up 1c2) to bring up, bring against, take away …

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “ascend” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

ASCEND', verb transitive

To go or move upwards upon, as to ascend a hill or ladder; or to climb, as to ascend a tree.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.