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2 Kings 4:21
“And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
עָלָהʻâlâh · aw-law'
H5927 · Hebrew
H5927 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, [phrase] shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, [idiom] mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, [phrase] perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- תַּ֨עַל֙ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, feminine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 894 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:6Genesis 8:20Genesis 13:1Genesis 17:22Genesis 19:15
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read עָלָה here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.