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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you	21
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them	17
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long as you live in	1
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looms over	1
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 the gatekeepers	1
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that you have in	1
the envoys	1
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the lord	1
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then along with	1
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this happened because	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
upon yourself	1
upon yourselves	1
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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we are closely	1
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what you have in	1
when	1
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while those facing	1
who supervised	1
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will be next to it	1
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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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him according	1
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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

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2 Samuel 11:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.
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2 Samuel 11:2 · BSB · 3 occurrences
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
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2 Samuel 11:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
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2 Samuel 11:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
if the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?
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2 Samuel 11:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
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2 Samuel 11:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
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2 Samuel 11:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”
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2 Samuel 11:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
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2 Samuel 12:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”
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2 Samuel 12:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
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2 Samuel 12:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
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2 Samuel 12:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.
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2 Samuel 12:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now, therefore, assemble the rest of the troops, lay siege to the city, and capture it. Otherwise I will capture the city, and it will be named after me.”
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2 Samuel 12:30 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then he took the crown from the head of their king. It weighed a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
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2 Samuel 13:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
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2 Samuel 13:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then she brought the pan and set it down before him, but he refused to eat. “Send everyone away!” said Amnon. And everyone went out.
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2 Samuel 13:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”
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2 Samuel 13:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Amnon’s attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.
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2 Samuel 13:19 · BSB · 3 occurrences
And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying aloud.
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2 Samuel 13:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for violating his sister Tamar.
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2 Samuel 13:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.
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2 Samuel 13:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.
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2 Samuel 13:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
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2 Samuel 13:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.
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2 Samuel 13:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.
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2 Samuel 14:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Joab son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart longed for Absalom.
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2 Samuel 14:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.
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2 Samuel 14:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”
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2 Samuel 14:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
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2 Samuel 14:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”
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2 Samuel 14:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
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2 Samuel 14:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
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2 Samuel 14:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
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2 Samuel 14:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and bowed facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.
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2 Samuel 15:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out and ask, “What city are you from?” And if he replied, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”
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2 Samuel 15:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he would add, “If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice.”
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2 Samuel 15:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”
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2 Samuel 15:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.
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2 Samuel 15:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In fact, you arrived only yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I do not know where I am going? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness.”
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2 Samuel 15:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.
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2 Samuel 15:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When David came to the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Archite was there to meet him with his robe torn and dust on his head.
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2 Samuel 15:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.
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2 Samuel 16:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a skin of wine.
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2 Samuel 16:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”
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2 Samuel 16:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
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2 Samuel 17:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king
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2 Samuel 17:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.
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2 Samuel 17:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. And of all the men with him, not even one will remain.
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2 Samuel 17:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the man’s wife took a covering, spread it over the mouth of the well, and scattered grain over it so nobody would know a thing.
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2 Samuel 17:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After the men had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed up out of the well and went to inform King David, saying, “Get up and cross over the river at once, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”
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