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)

STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

TBESH · H5921B

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

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

STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

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.

Open Scriptures transcription · CC BY-SA

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
on	762
over	289
against	210
in	205
to	197
for	152
from	128
upon	115
at	88
by	82
therefore	74
and	70
against you	69
on it	57
of	55
with	53
because of	49
against me	48
above	45
and on	39
because	38
against them	35
upon you	35
on them	34
upon them	33
into	32
it on	32
vvv	31
about	30
against him	28
over them	28
concerning	27
that is why	26
near	25
over you	25
beside	24
according to	23
along	23
from me	23
on him	22
against it	21
you	21
was in charge of	20
him	19
for him	18
upon him	18
for you	17
them	17
and against	16
over us	16
so	16
against her	15
on you	15
to you	15
upon me	15
upon us	15
was over	15
around	13
before	13
me	13
why	13
against us	12
facedown	12
men in	12
over him	12
to me	12
us	12
along with	11
as	11
atop	11
away from	11
bordering	11
on us	11
under	11
within me	11
it to	10
over it	10
to it	10
toward	10
upon it	10
even	9
for them	9
is on	9
over me	9
to them	9
from you	8
it	8
next	8
off	8
together with	8
after	7
her	7
to him	7
administrator	6
for me	6
from above	6
from him	6
in charge of	6
regarding	6
through	6
was on	6
and next	5
are on	5
at him	5
for her	5
in it	5
on her	5
opposite	5
out of	5
there	5
to the tune of	5
among	4
and from	4
beside it	4
beyond	4
east	4
here	4
in addition to	4
in command	4
in him	4
it is because	4
it pleases	4
of you	4
on me	4
on their behalf	4
on your behalf	4
past	4
this is why	4
with him	4
with it	4
across	3
and at	3
and for	3
and in	3
and next to	3
and so	3
around him	3
around you	3
as for	3
at me	3
be upon	3
because of it	3
because of them	3
cover	3
during	3
faces	3
for it	3
from them	3
he was wearing	3
high above	3
i am against	3
i am against you	3
in front of	3
in spite of	3
is over	3
it into	3
next to	3
next to it	3
nor	3
on account of	3
on his behalf	3
surrounds	3
throughout	3
to her	3
toward him	3
upon her	3
was in charge	3
was upon him	3
were in charge of	3
were on	3
where	3
with them	3
with us	3
about him	2
according	2
against joash	2
against zechariah	2
along the top	2
among them	2
and along	2
and on it	2
and over	2
and to	2
and upon	2
and with	2
are above	2
around it	2
at you	2
attacked	2
await you	2
be on	2
before you	2
beside him	2
by it	2
by them	2
corresponded to	2
crowned	2
down	2
even on	2
extending across	2
for us	2
for your sake	2
from her land	2
herself	2
how	2
in accordance with	2
in his	2
in hostility	2
is against	2
is upon	2
is upon you	2
it around	2
it over	2
meat with	2
my	2
nearby	2
no wonder	2
or on	2
outside the city	2
over the people	2
over yourselves	2
overlooking	2
placed on	2
rested on	2
rested on them	2
so at	2
so that	2
than	2
the city	2
their	2
their own	2
things to	2
thus	2
to its value	2
to us	2
was upon me	2
were under	2
what is on	2
with you	2
you on	2
your	2
a high	1
a message	1
about me	1
about my	1
about us	1
about you	1
above me	1
above them	1
above you	1
accompanied by	1
accordingly	1
across it	1
against amaziah	1
against gog	1
against jehoiakim	1
against nadab	1
against one	1
against our fathers	1
against the men	1
against their enemies	1
against you jerusalem	1
all along	1
although	1
and a leader over	1
and also	1
and also about	1
and are wearing	1
and around	1
and as a result	1
and because	1
and by	1
and defend	1
and i must care for	1
and moved	1
and on them	1
and onto	1
and out to	1
and over it	1
and passed above	1
and sends it	1
and show me	1
and standing on	1
and stood over	1
and the distance from	1
and the inflow	1
and there by	1
and therefore	1
and this is why	1
and to give a ruling	1
and under	1
and upon them	1
and upon you	1
and was over	1
and what was attached to it	1
and why	1
and you shall not wear	1
anything with	1
apart from you	1
are heavy	1
are making against me	1
are on my	1
are over	1
are over them	1
are upon me	1
are upon you	1
around me	1
around us	1
as much as in	1
as on	1
as one who is above	1
as they had spoken against	1
as well as	1
as well as on	1
as well as over	1
at each of	1
at his	1
at his side	1
at jonathan	1
at the top	1
at them	1
at what	1
at you in scorn	1
atop one pillar	1
away	1
away from me	1
away from us	1
back upon	1
be entrusted	1
be on me	1
be upon you	1
because of him	1
because of this	1
because of you	1
because the foundation	1
because they were	1
before him	1
before me	1
behalf	1
being responsible for	1
below	1
beside the springs	1
besieged	1
bestowed on	1
better than	1
between	1
bind her	1
binds her	1
both	1
both of them	1
both you	1
but because of	1
but fully	1
but on	1
by being in the presence	1
by her	1
by him	1
by me	1
by such things	1
by the shore	1
came	1
came to him	1
carrying it on	1
come against	1
company	1
concerning abram	1
concerning the singers	1
concerning them	1
concerning you	1
concerning you o nineveh	1
corresponding to	1
covered	1
crossing	1
crowns you	1
defected	1
despite	1
elsewhere	1
entrusted with	1
even beyond	1
even though	1
even till	1
expected	1
explicitly	1
extends to	1
facing	1
fall on them	1
far	1
feast on	1
floated on	1
foes	1
for battle against her	1
for its contents	1
for the people	1
for themselves	1
for this	1
for your honor	1
from atop	1
from doing	1
from each of them	1
from fighting against	1
from her	1
from her shoulder	1
from here	1
from it	1
from my people	1
from us	1
from which	1
from your neck	1
from yourselves	1
grieving for	1
had	1
had been assigned to	1
had charge	1
had charge of	1
hagar by	1
has aroused	1
he has received money from	1
he has veiled	1
he will reign on	1
he wrote on	1
her husband	1
here because of	1
here by	1
his own	1
his presence	1
his purpose for me	1
in addition to them	1
in addition to these	1
in charge	1
in charge of them	1
in front of it	1
in his grasp	1
in his presence	1
in me	1
in mourning for	1
in my presence	1
in obedience to	1
in opposition to	1
in proportion to	1
in response	1
in the land	1
in the space above	1
in view of	1
in you	1
in your	1
inscribe it on	1
into contact	1
into it	1
into them	1
is above	1
is against her	1
is against you	1
is aimed at	1
is at	1
is before	1
is beyond	1
is by	1
is for me	1
is heard over	1
is in	1
is near	1
is on him	1
is on it	1
is on me	1
is on you	1
is ordained for	1
is rewarded for his ways	1
is the basis	1
is to be done at	1
is to remain	1
is upon them	1
is why	1
is with	1
it across	1
it against	1
it for	1
kindly to them	1
led	1
let me supply	1
lies in	1
lies on	1
like	1
loaded with	1
long as you live in	1
longed for	1
look on you	1
looms over	1
lying	1
lying on	1
manned	1
may be before	1
may you have	1
moreover	1
must wear the robe	1
my people	1
myself	1
near amasa	1
now	1
now tamar was wearing	1
of all	1
of him	1
of him instead	1
of his	1
of its value	1
of its value to it	1
of me	1
of the gatekeepers	1
of the value	1
of them	1
of your body	1
off my people	1
oil into	1
on aaron	1
on account	1
on account of her	1
on account of him	1
on account of you	1
on before	1
on behalf of	1
on each of	1
on his shoulders	1
on his side	1
on the altar	1
on the bodies	1
on their	1
on their bodies	1
on their heads	1
on them like dew	1
on this altar	1
on top	1
on top of	1
on which	1
on which was placed	1
once more in	1
only for	1
only to	1
onto	1
onward	1
or	1
other	1
ourselves	1
over achan	1
over edom	1
over her	1
over me is	1
over that	1
over the boy again	1
over to	1
over whom	1
over you and said	1
part of	1
pot on	1
poured on	1
prepared on	1
reaches to	1
regard	1
regulating	1
rest on	1
rests on	1
ring	1
sackcloth around	1
saul	1
shall extend	1
sheba	1
since	1
so by	1
some	1
songs	1
standing above them	1
standing on	1
still in	1
stood in	1
supporting	1
tenderly to	1
that	1
that are on it	1
that has come upon you	1
that is on them	1
that spirit on	1
that spirit on them	1
that they	1
that was in	1
that you have in	1
the envoys	1
the envoys gladly	1
the load	1
the lord	1
the nursing child	1
the oil on	1
the ropes off	1
the space above	1
the steward	1
their bodies by	1
their bodies on	1
themselves to	1
then along with	1
there on	1
these officers were in charge of	1
they	1
they turn against	1
they were in charge of	1
they were responsible for	1
they will attack	1
they will attack us	1
things against	1
this happened because	1
this to	1
though	1
to ahaz	1
to assist	1
to be in charge of	1
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
to reach	1
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
turned away from her	1
turns on	1
unanswered	1
up	1
up on	1
upon elisha	1
upon himself	1
upon myself	1
upon yourself	1
upon yourselves	1
was above	1
was beside	1
was lifted up toward	1
was on moses	1
was over them	1
was placed	1
was reclining	1
was under	1
was upon	1
was upon us	1
we are closely	1
we will go against it	1
were above	1
were arranged	1
were assigned to	1
were at	1
were beside	1
were over	1
were responsible for	1
were still covering	1
what you have in	1
when	1
wherever	1
while those facing	1
who supervised	1
who was at	1
will be next to it	1
will be over you	1
will be set against	1
will come against	1
will grow even	1
will he	1
will remain on	1
will turn to	1
with achish	1
with her	1
with me	1
with rehoboam	1
within	1
word throughout	1
written in	1
yet	1
yet he watches over	1
you are wearing	1
you at	1
you concerning	1
you for	1
you in	1
you over	1
you to	1
you would	1
your bags to	1
your doom	1
your downfall	1
your responsibility	1
yourself in	1
yourselves above	1

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
as	1
because	1
beyond the time	1
both	1
by reason of	1
for	1
for through	1
from	1
from off	1
from out	1
him according	1
him of	1
how long	1
in that	1
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

Page 3 of 90. 4490 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

Genesis 24:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
Read word by word
Genesis 24:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.
Read word by word
Genesis 24:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
Read word by word
Genesis 24:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
Read word by word
Genesis 24:30 · BSB · 3 occurrences
As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
Read word by word
Genesis 24:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!
Read word by word
Genesis 24:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’
Read word by word
Genesis 24:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
Read word by word
Genesis 24:46 · BSB · 1 occurrence
She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.
Read word by word
Genesis 24:47 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
Read word by word
Genesis 24:49 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; but if not, let me know, so that I may go elsewhere.”
Read word by word
Genesis 24:61 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
Read word by word
Genesis 24:64 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel
Read word by word
Genesis 25:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
Read word by word
Genesis 25:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
Read word by word
Genesis 25:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Ishmael’s descendants settled from Havilah to Shur, which is near the border of Egypt as you go toward Asshur. And they lived in hostility toward all their brothers.
Read word by word
Genesis 25:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
Read word by word
Genesis 26:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”
Read word by word
Genesis 26:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
Read word by word
Genesis 26:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
Read word by word
Genesis 26:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.
Read word by word
Genesis 26:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
Read word by word
Genesis 26:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.
Read word by word
Genesis 26:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.
Read word by word
Genesis 27:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
Read word by word
Genesis 27:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”
Read word by word
Genesis 27:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
She also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
Read word by word
Genesis 27:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
Read word by word
Genesis 27:40 · BSB · 2 occurrences
You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”
Read word by word
Genesis 27:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Read word by word
Genesis 28:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
Read word by word
Genesis 28:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Esau went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Abraham’s son Ishmael, in addition to the wives he already had.
Read word by word
Genesis 28:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
Read word by word
Genesis 28:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,
Read word by word
Genesis 29:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.
Read word by word
Genesis 29:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
Read word by word
Genesis 29:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
Read word by word
Genesis 29:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.
Read word by word
Genesis 29:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Once again Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.
Read word by word
Genesis 29:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.
Read word by word
Genesis 30:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
Read word by word
Genesis 30:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.
Read word by word
Genesis 30:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
Read word by word
Genesis 30:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So my honesty will testify for me when you come to check on my wages in the future. If I have any goats that are not speckled or spotted, or any lambs that are not dark-colored, they will be considered stolen.”
Read word by word
Genesis 30:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
Read word by word
Genesis 30:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.
Read word by word
Genesis 31:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.
Read word by word
Genesis 31:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
Read word by word
Genesis 31:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,
Read word by word
Genesis 31:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
Read word by word

Sources and text

Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). STEPBible data · License.

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.

Open in Berean Blue