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H5921 — עַל
al · upon · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 1:2 · עַל־ · עַל־Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.Genesis 1:7 · מֵעַ֣לSo God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.Genesis 1:11 · עַל־Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.Genesis 1:15 · עַל־And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so.Genesis 1:17 · עַל־God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth,Genesis 1:20 · עַל־ · עַל־And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”Genesis 1:26 · עַל־Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”Genesis 1:28 · עַל־God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”Genesis 1:29 · עַל־Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.Genesis 1:30 · עַל־And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth—everything that has the breath of life in it—I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.Genesis 2:5 · עַל־Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.Genesis 2:16 · עַל־And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,Genesis 2:21 · עַל־So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.Genesis 2:24 · עַל־For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.Genesis 3:14 · עַל־So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.Genesis 4:14 · מֵעַל֙Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”Genesis 6:1 · עַל־Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,Genesis 6:7 · מֵעַל֙So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”Genesis 6:12 · עַל־And God looked upon the earth and saw that it was corrupt; for all living creatures on the earth had corrupted their ways.Genesis 6:17 · עַל־And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.Genesis 7:3 · עַל־and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.Genesis 7:4 · עַל־ · מֵעַ֖לFor seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”Genesis 7:6 · עַל־Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.Genesis 7:8 · עַל־The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the groundGenesis 7:10 · עַל־And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.Genesis 7:12 · עַל־And the rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights.Genesis 7:14 · עַל־they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.Genesis 7:17 · עַל־ · מֵעַ֥לFor forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.Genesis 7:18 · עַל־ · עַל־So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.Genesis 7:19 · עַל־Finally, the waters completely prevailed upon the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.Genesis 7:21 · עַל־ · עַל־And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.Genesis 7:23 · עַל־And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.Genesis 7:24 · עַל־And the waters prevailed upon the earth for 150 days.Genesis 8:1 · עַל־But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.Genesis 8:3 · מֵעַ֥לThe waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.Genesis 8:4 · עַ֖לOn the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.Genesis 8:7 · מֵעַ֥לand sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the waters had dried up from the earth.Genesis 8:8 · מֵעַ֖לThen Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.Genesis 8:9 · עַל־But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.Genesis 8:11 · מֵעַ֥לAnd behold, the dove returned to him in the evening with a freshly plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.Genesis 8:13 · מֵעַ֣לIn Noah’s six hundred and first year, on the first day of the first month, the waters had dried up from the earth. So Noah removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry.Genesis 8:17 · עַל־ · עַל־Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”Genesis 8:19 · עַל־Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.Genesis 9:2 · עַ֚ל · וְעַ֖לThe fear and dread of you will fall on every living creature on the earth, every bird of the air, every creature that crawls on the ground, and all the fish of the sea. They are delivered into your hand.Genesis 9:14 · עַל־Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,Genesis 9:16 · עַל־And whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of every kind that is on the earth.”Genesis 9:17 · עַל־So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”Genesis 9:23 · עַל־Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.Genesis 10:9 · עַל־He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”Genesis 11:4 · עַל־“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”Genesis 11:8 · עַל־So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city.Genesis 11:9 · עַל־ · עַל־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.Genesis 11:28 · עַל־During his father Terah’s lifetime, Haran died in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.Genesis 12:17 · עַל־The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.Genesis 12:20 · עָלָ֛יוThen Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning Abram, and they sent him away with his wife and all his possessions.Genesis 13:9 · מֵעָלָ֑יIs 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.”Genesis 13:11 · מֵעַ֥לSo Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.Genesis 14:6 · עַל־and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.Genesis 14:15 · עֲלֵיהֶ֧ם׀During the night, Abram divided his forces and routed Chedorlaomer’s army, pursuing them as far as Hobah, north of Damascus.Genesis 15:11 · עַל־And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.Genesis 15:12 · עַל־ · עָלָֽיו׃As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and suddenly great terror and darkness overwhelmed him.Genesis 16:5 · עָלֶיךָ֒Then 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.”Genesis 16:7 · עַל־ · עַל־Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.Genesis 16:12 · וְעַל־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.”Genesis 16:14 · עַל־Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.Genesis 17:3 · עַל־Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,Genesis 17:17 · עַל־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?”Genesis 17:22 · מֵעַ֖לWhen He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.Genesis 18:2 · עָלָ֑יוAnd 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.Genesis 18:3 · מֵעַ֥ל“My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.Genesis 18:5 · עַל־ · עַֽל־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.”Genesis 18:8 · עֲלֵיהֶ֛םThen 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.Genesis 18:16 · עַל־When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them off.Genesis 18:19 · עַל־ · עָלָֽיו׃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.”Genesis 19:4 · עַל־Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.Genesis 19:8 · עַל־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.”Genesis 19:16 · עָלָ֑יוBut 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.Genesis 19:17 · עַל־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!”Genesis 19:22 · עַל־Hurry! Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you reach it.” That is why the town was called Zoar.Genesis 19:23 · עַל־And by the time the sun had risen over the land, Lot had reached Zoar.Genesis 19:24 · עַל־ · וְעַל־Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.Genesis 19:28 · עַל־ · וְעַֽל־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.Genesis 19:31 · עָלֵ֔ינוּOne 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.Genesis 20:3 · עַל־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.”Genesis 20:6 · עַל־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.Genesis 20:9 · עָלַ֛י · וְעַל־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.”Genesis 20:11 · עַל־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.’Genesis 20:18 · עַל־for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.Genesis 21:11 · עַ֖לNow this matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son Ishmael.Genesis 21:12 · עַל־ · וְעַל־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.Genesis 21:14 · עַל־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.Genesis 21:25 · עַל־But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,Genesis 21:31 · עַל־So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.Genesis 22:2 · עַ֚ל“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.”Genesis 22:6 · עַל־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.Genesis 22:9 · עַל־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.Genesis 22:17 · עַל־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.Genesis 23:3 · מֵעַ֖לThen Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,Genesis 23:19 · עַל־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.Genesis 24:9 · עַל־So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.Genesis 24:13 · עַל־Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.Genesis 24:15 · עַל־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.Genesis 24:18 · עַל־“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.Genesis 24:22 · עַל־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.Genesis 24:30 · עַל־ · עַל־ · עַל־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.Genesis 24:42 · עָלֶֽיהָ׃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!Genesis 24:43 · עַל־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,’Genesis 24:45 · עַל־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.’Genesis 24:46 · מֵֽעָלֶ֔יהָShe 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.Genesis 24:47 · עַל־ · עַל־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.Genesis 24:49 · עַל־ · עַל־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.”Genesis 24:61 · עַל־Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.Genesis 24:64 · מֵעַ֥לAnd when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camelGenesis 25:6 · מֵעַ֨לBut 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.Genesis 25:9 · עַל־His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.Genesis 25:18 · עַל־ · עַל־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.Genesis 25:30 · עַל־He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)Genesis 26:7 · עַל־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.”Genesis 26:9 · עָלֶֽיהָ׃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.”Genesis 26:10 · עָלֵ֖ינוּ“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.”Genesis 26:21 · עָלֶ֑יהָThen they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.Genesis 26:22 · עָלֶ֑יהָHe 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.”Genesis 26:32 · עַל־On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.Genesis 26:33 · עַל־So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.Genesis 27:12 · עָלַ֛יWhat 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.”Genesis 27:13 · עָלַ֥יHis mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”Genesis 27:16 · עַל־ · וְעַ֖לShe also put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.Genesis 27:39 · מֵעָֽל׃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.Genesis 27:40 · וְעַל־ · מֵעַ֥לYou shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”Genesis 27:41 · עַל־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.”Genesis 28:6 · עָלָיו֙Now 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,”Genesis 28:9 · עַל־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.Genesis 28:13 · עָלָיו֮ · עָלֶ֔יהָAnd 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.Genesis 28:18 · עַל־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,Genesis 29:2 · עָלֶ֔יהָ · עַל־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.Genesis 29:3 · מֵעַל֙ · עַל־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.Genesis 29:8 · מֵעַ֖לBut 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.”Genesis 29:10 · מֵעַל֙As 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.Genesis 29:34 · עַל־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.Genesis 29:35 · עַל־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.Genesis 30:3 · עַל־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.”Genesis 30:6 · עַל־Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.Genesis 30:28 · עָלַ֖יAnd he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”Genesis 30:33 · עַל־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.”Genesis 30:37 · עַל־Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.Genesis 30:40 · עַל־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.Genesis 31:10 · עַל־When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.Genesis 31:12 · עַל־‘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.Genesis 31:17 · עַל־Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,Genesis 31:20 · עַל־Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
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