Quick Definition
to ascend: rise
Strong's 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 Usage: 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.
TWOT Reference: 1624
Outline of Biblical Usage
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
1c3) to bring up, draw up, train
1c4) to cause to ascend
1c5) to rouse, stir up (mentally)
1c6) to offer, bring up (of gifts)
1c7) to exalt
1c8) to cause to ascend, offer
1d) (Hophal)
1d1) to be carried away, be led up
1d2) to be taken up into, be inserted in
1d3) to be offered
1e) (Hithpael) to lift oneself
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
G71
G91
G305
G307
G321
G353
G381
G385
G399
G450
G565
G643
G685
G868
G1096
G1125
G1224
G1525
G1531
G1544
G1684
G1744
G1746
G1806
G1831
G1831
G1844
G1863
G1869
G1904
G1910
G1911
G2007
G2064
G2240
G2325
G2354
G2476
G2545
G2671
G2983
G3727
G3728
G3928
G4160
G4198
G4319
G4374
G4863
G4872
G5087
G5229
G5251
G5306
G5307
G5342
G5453
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
: 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
1c3) to bring up, draw up, train
1c4) to cause to ascend
1c5) to rouse, stir up (mentally)
1c6) to offer, bring up (of gifts)
1c7) to exalt
1c8) to cause to ascend, offer
1d) (Hophal)
1d1) to be carried away, be led up
1d2) to be taken up into, be inserted in
1d3) to be offered
1e) (Hithpael) to lift oneself
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
עָלָה
‛âlâh
BDB Definition:
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
1c3) to bring up, draw up, train
1c4) to cause to ascend
1c5) to rouse, stir up (mentally)
1c6) to offer, bring up (of gifts)
1c7) to exalt
1c8) to cause to ascend, offer
1d) (Hophal)
1d1) to be carried away, be led up
1d2) to be taken up into, be inserted in
1d3) to be offered
1e) (Hithpael) to lift oneself
Part of Speech: verb
A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1624
Total KJV Occurrences: 889
Bible Occurrences (812)
1:10
2:23
3:8
3:17
8:3
8:4
8:5
8:6
8:7
10:12
10:14
12:38
13:18
13:19
16:13
16:14
17:3
17:10
19:3
19:12
19:13
19:18
19:20
19:23
19:24
20:26
24:1
24:2
24:5
24:9
24:12
24:13
24:15
24:18
25:37
27:20
30:8
30:9
32:1
32:4
32:6
32:7
32:8
32:23
32:30
33:1
33:3
33:5
33:12
33:15
34:2
34:3
34:4
34:24
40:4
40:25
40:29
40:36
40:37
1:1
1:2
1:3
1:4
1:16
1:22
2:1
4:5
4:10
4:12
6:3
6:5
6:8
6:13
6:21
6:26
6:28
6:35
8:8
8:11
9:48
9:51
11:13
11:16
11:31
12:3
13:5
13:16
13:19
13:20
14:2
14:19
15:6
15:9
15:10
15:13
16:3
16:5
16:8
16:17
16:18
16:31
18:9
18:12
18:17
19:25
19:30
20:3
20:18
20:23
20:26
20:28
20:30
20:31
20:38
20:40
21:4
21:5
21:8
21:19
1:3
1:7
1:11
1:21
1:22
1:24
2:6
2:14
2:19
2:28
5:12
6:7
6:9
6:14
6:15
6:20
6:21
7:1
7:7
7:9
7:10
8:8
9:11
9:13
9:14
9:19
9:26
10:3
10:8
10:18
11:1
12:6
13:5
13:9
13:10
13:12
13:15
14:9
14:10
14:12
14:13
14:21
14:46
15:2
15:6
15:34
17:23
17:25
19:15
23:19
23:29
24:22
25:5
25:13
25:35
27:8
28:8
28:11
28:13
28:14
28:15
29:9
29:11
2:6
3:16
4:7
4:13
4:29
5:10
6:4
6:5
7:31
8:22
9:21
10:13
11:7
14:2
14:12
16:14
16:15
19:5
21:2
22:20
23:7
23:8
26:10
27:22
30:17
31:6
32:35
33:6
33:18
34:21
35:11
37:5
37:11
38:10
38:13
39:5
44:21
46:4
46:7
46:8
46:9
46:11
47:2
48:5
48:15
48:18
48:35
48:44
49:19
49:22
49:28
49:31
50:3
50:9
50:21
50:44
51:3
51:16
51:27
51:42
51:50
51:53
52:9