al H5921

עַל (al) means “upon” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

עַל Hebrew · H5921 5,771 tagged occurrences in 4,490 verses

Pronunciation guide: al Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5921A

עַל · al · upon

prep 1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against 1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards 1b) above, beyond, over (of excess) 1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence) 1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition) 1e) over (of suspension or extension) 1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity) 1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion) 1h) to (as a dative)

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TBESH · H5921B

[כִּי] עַל [כֵּן] · [ki] al [ken] · as

conj forasmuch as, because that, because, notwithstanding, although

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

properly, the same as H5920 (עַל) used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

KJV glosses: above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.

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How translators render H5921

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
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vvv	31
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you	21
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him	19
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them	17
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her husband	1
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lying	1
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must wear the robe	1
my people	1
myself	1
near amasa	1
now	1
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of me	1
of the gatekeepers	1
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ring	1
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supporting	1
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that you have in	1
the envoys	1
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the lord	1
the nursing child	1
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then along with	1
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though	1
to ahaz	1
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to fall into	1
to fight	1
to himself	1
to his people	1
to meet	1
to mount it on	1
to my sorrow	1
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to that city	1
to the city	1
to the fire	1
to your	1
to your yoke	1
toward them	1
toward us	1
turned against them	1
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turns on	1
unanswered	1
up	1
up on	1
upon elisha	1
upon himself	1
upon myself	1
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was above	1
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was lifted up toward	1
was on moses	1
was over them	1
was placed	1
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what you have in	1
when	1
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who supervised	1
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will be next to it	1
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with her	1
with me	1
with rehoboam	1
within	1
word throughout	1
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yourself in	1
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KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
beside	3
upon	3
above	2
against	2
by	2
in	2
according to	1
after	1
against them touching	1
among	1
and	1
and from	1
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both	1
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for	1
for through	1
from	1
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how long	1
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near	1
of them had the charge of	1
off	1
on	1
out	1
over	1
over us	1
than	1
than they	1
them out of	1
thereof from	1
throughout	1
to	1
to him concerning	1
with	1

Verses containing H5921

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Genesis 11:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
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Genesis 11:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
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Genesis 11:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
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Genesis 12:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
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Genesis 12:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.
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Genesis 13:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
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Genesis 13:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.
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Genesis 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.
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Genesis 14:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
During the night, Abram divided his forces and routed Chedorlaomer’s army, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.
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Genesis 15:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
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Genesis 15:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.
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Genesis 16:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
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Genesis 16:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
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Genesis 16:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He will be a wild donkey of a man, and his hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand against him; he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”
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Genesis 16:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.
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Genesis 17:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
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Genesis 17:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
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Genesis 17:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.
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Genesis 18:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
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Genesis 18:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.
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Genesis 18:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.”
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Genesis 18:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abraham brought curds and milk and the calf that had been prepared, and he set them before the men and stood by them under the tree as they ate.
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Genesis 18:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.
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Genesis 18:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
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Genesis 19:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.
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Genesis 19:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
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Genesis 19:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for them.
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Genesis 19:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
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Genesis 19:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.
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Genesis 19:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.
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Genesis 19:24 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
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Genesis 19:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
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Genesis 19:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
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Genesis 20:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
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Genesis 20:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
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Genesis 20:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done.”
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Genesis 20:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
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Genesis 20:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.
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Genesis 21:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.
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Genesis 21:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
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Genesis 21:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
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Genesis 21:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,
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Genesis 21:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
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Genesis 22:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
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Genesis 22:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.
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Genesis 22:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.
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Genesis 22:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
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Genesis 23:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
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Genesis 23:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 24:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
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We convert source tables to JSON, expand grammar labels and count tagged words. Greek counts use the SBL edition in TAGNT. Hebrew counts use the main reading in TAHOT, including Qere readings and restored text. Source numbering follows NRSV; alternate references appear where supplied.

Berean Standard Bible translation tables, public domain, Berean Bible. CrossWire KJV 3.1 , public domain text with Bible Foundation and KJV2003 Project tags, licensed for any purpose. Dodson Greek Lexicon , CC0. Strong’s Hebrew dictionary , Open Scriptures transcription, CC BY-SA; converted Hebrew entries retain those terms. Greek pronunciation spellings come from Strong's Greek dictionary, XML edition 1.4 , public domain.

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