עָלָה ʻâlâh — to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount)
Translated in the KJV as arise, ascend up, at once, break, bring, burn, carry up, cast up, shew, climb, (cause to, make to) come.
a primitive root; to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative.
ʻâlâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 148Perfect (qatal) 129Imperfect (yiqtol) 114Imperative 64Participle (active) 55Infinitive construct 53Sequential perfect (weqatal) 27Jussive 11Cohortative 8Infinitive absolute 3
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 71Perfect (qatal) 49Infinitive construct 42Imperfect (yiqtol) 31Participle (active) 30Sequential perfect (weqatal) 23Imperative 9Jussive 4Infinitive absolute 1
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.
And 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.
And 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.
Niph'al
Infinitive construct 6Perfect (qatal) 5Wayyiqtol 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Imperative 1
And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.
And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents.
Hoph'al
Perfect (qatal) 3
And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.
But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
Hitpa'el
Jussive 1
Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›