1. עָלָה
go up, ascend, climb
The corpus record — Hebrew
יַֽעֲלֶ֣ה
alah · vb
go up, ascend, climb
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 894 · 29.14/10k
Senses
2. עָלָה
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
Attestations
- יַֽעֲלֶ֣ה Genesis 2:6 (BHS)
- וַ/יַּ֥עַל Genesis 8:20 (BHS)
- וַ/יַּעַל֩ Genesis 13:1 (BHS)
- וַ/יַּ֣עַל Genesis 17:22 (BHS)
- עָלָ֔ה Genesis 19:15 (BHS)
- עָלָה֙ Genesis 19:28 (BHS)
6 of 894 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.