Burnt offering
עֲלָתStrong’s H5930alah (a-lah)
Appears in 261 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Alah is the Hebrew word usually translated “burnt offering”, “burnt offerings” and “burnt offering of”. It appears in 261 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.”
Meaning
- Burnt offering, holocaust
- Ascent, stairway, steps
How it's translated
- the burnt offering 66
- a burnt offering 46
- burnt offerings 35
- to a burnt offering 27
- burnt offering of 21
- burnt offering 17
- burnt offerings your 11
- burnt offering his 7
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 58
- Numbers 53
- 2 Chronicles 24
- Ezekiel 17
- Exodus 16
- 1 Chronicles 11
23 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 22:2And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
- Genesis 22:3And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
- Genesis 22:6And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
- Genesis 22:7And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
- Genesis 22:8And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
- Genesis 22:13And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
All 261 verses, by book
- Leviticus 58
- 1:31:41:61:91:101:131:141:173:54:74:104:184:244:254:294:304:334:345:75:106:96:106:126:257:27:87:378:188:218:289:29:39:79:129:139:149:169:179:229:2410:1912:612:814:1314:1914:2014:2214:3115:1515:3016:316:516:2417:822:1823:1223:1823:37
- Numbers 53
- 6:116:146:167:157:217:277:337:397:457:517:577:637:697:757:817:878:1210:1015:315:515:815:2423:323:623:1523:1728:328:628:1028:1128:1328:1428:1528:1928:2328:2428:2728:3129:229:629:829:1129:1329:1629:1929:2229:2529:2829:3129:3429:3629:3829:39
- 2 Chronicles 24
- 1:62:44:67:17:78:1213:1123:1824:1429:729:1829:2429:2729:2829:3129:3229:3429:3530:1531:231:335:1235:1435:16
- Nehemiah 1
- 10:33
- Hosea 1
- 6:6
- Amos 1
- 5:22
- Micah 1
- 6:6
Hebrew dictionary
עֲלָת alah · burnt offering
burnt offering, holocaust Aramaic of o.lah (עֹלָה "burnt offering" H5930A)
עֹלָה olah · ascent
ascent, stairway, steps
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.