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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vvv	31
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that is why	26
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you	21
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him	19
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them	17
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around	13
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us	12
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for battle against her	1
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for themselves	1
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for your honor	1
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from my people	1
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from your neck	1
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grieving for	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
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her husband	1
here because of	1
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his presence	1
his purpose for me	1
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in me	1
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is rewarded for his ways	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
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of your body	1
off my people	1
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over the boy again	1
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over you and said	1
part of	1
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ring	1
sackcloth around	1
saul	1
shall extend	1
sheba	1
since	1
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some	1
songs	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
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the space above	1
the steward	1
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then along with	1
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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
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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
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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
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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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Jeremiah 7:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
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Jeremiah 7:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
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Jeremiah 7:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
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Jeremiah 8:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.
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Jeremiah 8:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
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Jeremiah 8:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
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Jeremiah 8:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Why are we just sitting here? Gather together, let us flee to the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has doomed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
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Jeremiah 8:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences
My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.
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Jeremiah 8:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am crushed. I mourn; horror has gripped me.
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Jeremiah 9:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
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Source alternate reference: 9.3
Jeremiah 9:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”
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Source alternate reference: 9.8
Jeremiah 9:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.
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Source alternate reference: 9.9
Jeremiah 9:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?
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Source alternate reference: 9.11
Jeremiah 9:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
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Source alternate reference: 9.12
Jeremiah 9:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.
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Source alternate reference: 9.17
Jeremiah 9:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”
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Source alternate reference: 9.21
Jeremiah 9:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh—
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Source alternate reference: 9.24
Jeremiah 9:26 · BSB · 6 occurrences
Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”
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Source alternate reference: 9.25
Jeremiah 10:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.
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Jeremiah 10:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”
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Jeremiah 10:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.
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Jeremiah 10:25 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
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Jeremiah 11:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 11:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
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Jeremiah 11:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
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Jeremiah 11:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you are wicked, then you rejoice.
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Jeremiah 11:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
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Jeremiah 11:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”
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Jeremiah 11:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
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Jeremiah 11:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.”
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Jeremiah 11:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
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Jeremiah 12:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.
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Jeremiah 12:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
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Jeremiah 12:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
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Jeremiah 12:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.
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Jeremiah 12:14 · BSB · 2 occurrences
This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
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Jeremiah 13:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
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Jeremiah 13:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So I bought a loincloth in accordance with the word of the LORD, and I put it around my waist.
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Jeremiah 13:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”
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Jeremiah 13:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land—the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem.
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Jeremiah 13:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
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Jeremiah 13:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences
What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?
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Jeremiah 13:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.
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Jeremiah 13:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”
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Jeremiah 14:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
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Jeremiah 14:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
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Jeremiah 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Wild donkeys stand on barren heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail for lack of pasture.”
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Jeremiah 14:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Why are You like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? Yet You are among us, O LORD, and we are called by Your name. Do not forsake us!
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Jeremiah 14:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!
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Jeremiah 14:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
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