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
on	762
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to	197
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it on	32
vvv	31
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that is why	26
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along	23
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you	21
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him	19
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upon him	18
for you	17
them	17
and against	16
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so	16
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around	13
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facedown	12
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us	12
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high above	3
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next to it	3
nor	3
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nearby	2
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than	2
the city	2
their	2
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with you	2
you on	2
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a high	1
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above you	1
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at you in scorn	1
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back upon	1
be entrusted	1
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being responsible for	1
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but fully	1
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by me	1
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company	1
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crossing	1
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entrusted with	1
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for battle against her	1
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for themselves	1
for this	1
for your honor	1
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from each of them	1
from fighting against	1
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from her shoulder	1
from here	1
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from my people	1
from us	1
from which	1
from your neck	1
from yourselves	1
grieving for	1
had	1
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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
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his presence	1
his purpose for me	1
in addition to them	1
in addition to these	1
in charge	1
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in me	1
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it across	1
it against	1
it for	1
kindly to them	1
led	1
let me supply	1
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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
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over the boy again	1
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over whom	1
over you and said	1
part of	1
pot on	1
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regard	1
regulating	1
rest on	1
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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
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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
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then along with	1
there on	1
these officers were in charge of	1
they	1
they turn against	1
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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
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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
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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
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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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Isaiah 25:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He will swallow up death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from every face and remove the disgrace of His people from the whole earth. For the LORD has spoken.
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Isaiah 26:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will reveal her bloodshed and will no longer conceal her slain.
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Isaiah 27:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences
In that day the LORD will take His sharp, great, and mighty sword, and bring judgment on Leviathan the fleeing serpent—Leviathan the coiling serpent—and He will slay the dragon of the sea.
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Isaiah 27:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it;
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Isaiah 27:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
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Isaiah 28:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.
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Isaiah 28:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.
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Isaiah 28:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
a spirit of justice to him who sits in judgment, and a strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.
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Isaiah 28:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.
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Isaiah 28:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
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Isaiah 29:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.
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Isaiah 29:3 · BSB · 3 occurrences
I will camp in a circle around you; I will besiege you with towers and set up siege works against you.
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Isaiah 29:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,
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Isaiah 29:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.
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Isaiah 29:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
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Isaiah 29:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”
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Isaiah 30:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
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Isaiah 30:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They bring neither help nor benefit, but only shame and disgrace.”
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Isaiah 30:6 · BSB · 3 occurrences
This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
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Isaiah 30:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
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Isaiah 30:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
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Isaiah 30:16 · BSB · 4 occurrences
“No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.
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Isaiah 30:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences
A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.
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Isaiah 30:25 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.
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Isaiah 30:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
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Isaiah 30:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And with every stroke of the rod of punishment that the LORD brings down on them, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished.
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Isaiah 31:1 · BSB · 4 occurrences
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
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Isaiah 31:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.
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Isaiah 31:4 · BSB · 4 occurrences
For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
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Isaiah 31:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”
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Isaiah 32:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But a noble man makes honorable plans; he stands up for worthy causes.
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Isaiah 32:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In a little more than a year you will tremble, O secure ones. For the grape harvest will fail and the fruit harvest will not arrive.
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Isaiah 32:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
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Isaiah 32:12 · BSB · 3 occurrences
Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,
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Isaiah 32:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
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Isaiah 32:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high. Then the desert will be an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
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Isaiah 32:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Blessed are those who sow beside abundant waters, who let the ox and donkey range freely.
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Isaiah 34:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.
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Isaiah 34:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When My sword has drunk its fill in the heavens, then it will come down upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction.
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Isaiah 34:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The desert owl and screech owl will possess it, and the great owl and raven will dwell in it. The LORD will stretch out over Edom a measuring line of chaos and a plumb line of destruction.
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Isaiah 34:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.
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Isaiah 34:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.
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Isaiah 35:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
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Isaiah 36:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.
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Isaiah 36:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.
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Isaiah 36:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
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Isaiah 36:6 · BSB · 4 occurrences
Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
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Isaiah 36:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!
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Isaiah 36:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
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Isaiah 36:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
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