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Hebrew adjective · H4605

מַעַל

maalmah'al

above

140 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: maʻal

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4605is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 23 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 44
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4605

properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.

The King James renders it: above, exceeding(-ly), forward, on ([idiom] very) high, over, up(-on, -ward), very.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

maal is rendered "above". It stands 140 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-three books.

  • Thirty-seven of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 6:16You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
  • The Greek text spells it forty-four different ways.

The first use

You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

Genesis 6:16מִלְמַ֔עְלָה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and up -wards49
  • to upwards towards28
  • from above27
  • from to above towards23
  • and to upwards towards6
  • and from above2
  • and on -wards2
  • up -wards2
  • and from to above towards1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

מַעַןmaanbecauseUses272
מַעַלmaalunfaithfulnessUses28
מַעַרmaarnakednessUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 140, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

44 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • וָמַ֔עְלָה27
  • וָמָ֑עְלָה13
  • מִלְמָ֑עְלָה10
  • לְמָֽעְלָה׃8
  • מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃7
  • מִמָּ֑עַל6
  • מִמַּ֔עַל5
  • וָמַ֖עְלָה4
  • לְמָ֑עְלָה4
  • וּלְמַ֔עְלָה3
  • לְמַ֔עְלָה3
  • לְמַ֜עְלָה3

and 32 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • conjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)51HC/Acbsa/Sd
  • preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)28HR/Acbsa/Sd
  • preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular23HR/Acbsa
  • preposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)22HR/R/Acbsa/Sd
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)6HC/R/Acbsa/Sd
  • preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HR/Acbsc
  • number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)2HAcbsa/Sd
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular2HC/R/Acbsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)1HC/R/R/Acbsa/Sd
  • preposition + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)1HR/R/Ncbsa/Sd

Genesis

three uses
  • You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.

    Genesis 6:16

    • מִלְמַ֔עְלָהmilma'lahpreposition + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

    Genesis 7:20

    • מִלְמַ֔עְלָהmilma'lahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • 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 22:9

    • מִמַּ֖עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above

Exodus

thirteen uses
  • You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

    Exodus 20:4

    • מִמַּ֡֔עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.

    Exodus 25:20

    • לְמַ֗עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • Set the mercy seat atop the ark, and put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.

    Exodus 25:21

    • מִלְמָ֑עְלָהmilmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • Also make a covering for the tent out of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.

    Exodus 26:14

    • מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃ פmilmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • Make two additional gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on its front, near its seam just above its woven waistband.

    Exodus 28:27

    • מִמַּ֕עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from above
  • Everyone twenty years of age or older who crosses over must give this offering to the LORD.

    Exodus 30:14

    • וָמָ֑עְלָהvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • Additionally, he made for the tent a covering of ram skins dyed red, and over that a covering of fine leather.

    Exodus 36:19

    • מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃ סmilmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • And the cherubim had wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim faced each other, looking toward the mercy seat.

    Exodus 37:9

    • לְמַ֗עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.

    Exodus 38:26

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • They made two additional gold rings and attached them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on its front, near the seam just above its woven waistband.

    Exodus 39:20

    • מִמַּ֕עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from above
  • Then they fastened to it a blue cord to mount it on the turban, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

    Exodus 39:31

    • מִלְמָ֑עְלָהmilmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, just as the LORD had commanded him.

    Exodus 40:19

    • מִלְמָ֑עְלָהmilmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • Moses took the Testimony and placed it in the ark, attaching the poles to the ark; and he set the mercy seat atop the ark.

    Exodus 40:20

    • מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃milmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards

Leviticus

two uses
  • However, you may eat the following kinds of flying insects that walk on all fours: those having jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.

    Leviticus 11:21

    • מִמַּ֣עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.

    Leviticus 27:7

    • וָמַ֙עְלָה֙vama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards

Numbers

thirty-seven uses
  • You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israel’s army.

    Numbers 1:3

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,

    Numbers 1:18

    • וָמַ֖עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • From the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

    Numbers 1:20

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • From the sons of Simeon, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

    Numbers 1:22

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • From the sons of Gad, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

    Numbers 1:24

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • From the sons of Judah, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

    Numbers 1:26

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • From the sons of Issachar, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

    Numbers 1:28

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • From the sons of Zebulun, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

    Numbers 1:30

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • From the sons of Joseph:

    Numbers 1:32

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • And from the sons of Manasseh, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

    Numbers 1:34

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • From the sons of Benjamin, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

    Numbers 1:36

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • From the sons of Dan, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

    Numbers 1:38

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • From the sons of Asher, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

    Numbers 1:40

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • From the sons of Naphtali, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,

    Numbers 1:42

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • So all the Israelites twenty years of age or older who could serve in Israel’s army were counted according to their families.

    Numbers 1:45

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • “Number the Levites by their families and clans. You are to count every male a month old or more.”

    Numbers 3:15

    • וָמַ֖עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • The number of all the males a month old or more was 7,500.

    Numbers 3:22

    • וָמָ֑עְלָהvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • The number of all the males a month old or more was 8,600. They were responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.

    Numbers 3:28

    • וָמָ֑עְלָהvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • The number of all the males a month old or more was 6,200.

    Numbers 3:34

    • וָמָ֑עְלָהvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • The total number of Levites that Moses and Aaron counted by their clans at the LORD’s command, including all the males a month old or more, was 22,000.

    Numbers 3:39

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • Then the LORD said to Moses, “Number every firstborn male of the Israelites a month old or more, and list their names.

    Numbers 3:40

    • וָמָ֑עְלָהvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • The total number of the firstborn males a month old or more, listed by name, was 22,273.

    Numbers 3:43

    • וָמַ֖עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • men from thirty to fifty years old—everyone who is qualified to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

    Numbers 4:3

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • They are to place over this a covering of fine leather, spread a solid blue cloth over it, and insert its poles.

    Numbers 4:6

    • מִלְמָ֑עְלָהmilmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

    Numbers 4:23

    • וָמַ֗עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • They are to carry the curtains of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting with the covering of fine leather over it, the curtains for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

    Numbers 4:25

    • מִלְמָ֑עְלָהmilmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • from thirty to fifty years old, counting everyone who comes to serve in the work of the Tent of Meeting.

    Numbers 4:30

    • וָמַ֗עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • everyone from thirty to fifty years old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

    Numbers 4:35

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • everyone from thirty to fifty years old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

    Numbers 4:39

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • everyone from thirty to fifty years old who came to serve in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

    Numbers 4:43

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • from thirty to fifty years old who came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting.

    Numbers 4:47

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • “This applies to the Levites: Men twenty-five years of age or older shall enter to perform the service in the work at the Tent of Meeting.

    Numbers 8:24

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

    Numbers 14:29

    • וָמָ֑עְלָהvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • “Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”

    Numbers 26:2

    • וָמַ֖עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • “Take a census of the men twenty years of age or older, as the LORD has commanded Moses.” And these were the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt:

    Numbers 26:4

    • וָמָ֑עְלָהvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • The registration of the Levites totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

    Numbers 26:62

    • וָמָ֑עְלָהvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • ‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—

    Numbers 32:11

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards

Deuteronomy

five uses
  • Know therefore this day and take to heart that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

    Deuteronomy 4:39

    • מִמַּ֔עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.

    Deuteronomy 5:8

    • מִמַּ֔֡עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.

    Deuteronomy 28:13

    • לְמַ֔עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.

    Deuteronomy 28:43

    • מַ֣עְלָהma'lahnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: up -wards
    • מָּ֑עְלָהmaelahnumber (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: up -wards

Joshua

three uses
  • When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.

    Joshua 2:11

    • מִמַּ֔עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”

    Joshua 3:13

    • מִלְמָ֑עְלָהmilmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

    Joshua 3:16

    • מִלְמַ֜עְלָהmilma'lahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards

Judges

two uses
  • And the border of the Amorites extended from the Ascent of Akrabbim to Sela and beyond.

    Judges 1:36

    • וָמָֽעְלָה׃ פvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

    Judges 7:13

    • לְמַ֖עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards

1 Samuel

four uses
  • And he had a son named Saul, choice and handsome, without equal among the Israelites—a head taller than any of the people.

    1 Samuel 9:2

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • So they ran and brought Saul, and when he stood among the people, he was a head taller than any of the others.

    1 Samuel 10:23

    • וָמָֽעְלָה׃vamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.

    1 Samuel 16:13

    • וָמָ֑עְלָהvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and on -wards
  • And so it has been from that day forward. David established this statute as an ordinance for Israel to this very day.

    1 Samuel 30:25

    • וָמָ֑עְלָהvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and on -wards

1 Kings

eight uses
  • The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

    1 Kings 7:3

    • מִמַּ֙עַל֙mimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • Above these were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.

    1 Kings 7:11

    • וּמִלְמַ֗עְלָהumilma'lahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and from to above towards
  • On the capitals of both pillars, just above the rounded projection next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows encircling each capital.

    1 Kings 7:20

    • מִמַּ֙עַל֙mimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.

    1 Kings 7:25

    • מִלְמָ֑עְלָהmilmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • and on the panels between the uprights were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the uprights was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of beveled work.

    1 Kings 7:29

    • מִמָּ֑עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.

    1 Kings 7:31

    • וָמַ֙עְלָה֙vama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.

    1 Kings 8:7

    • מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃milmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.

    1 Kings 8:23

    • מִמַּ֔עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above

2 Kings

two uses
  • Now all the Moabites had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. So all who could bear arms, young and old, were summoned and stationed at the border.

    2 Kings 3:21

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

    2 Kings 19:30

    • לְמָֽעְלָה׃lemaelahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards

1 Chronicles

eight uses
  • And David realized that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and had highly exalted his kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.

    1 Chronicles 14:2

    • לְמַ֙עְלָה֙lema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • And David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent—famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore I must make preparations for it.” So David made lavish preparations before his death.

    1 Chronicles 22:5

    • לְמַ֜עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • The Levites thirty years of age or older were counted, and the total number of men was 38,000.

    1 Chronicles 23:3

    • וָמָ֑עְלָהvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • The descendants of Eliezer: Rehabiah was the first. Eliezer did not have any other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very numerous.

    1 Chronicles 23:17

    • לְמָֽעְלָה׃lemaelahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • These were the descendants of Levi by their families—the heads of families, registered individually by name—those twenty years of age or older who worked in the service of the house of the LORD.

    1 Chronicles 23:24

    • וָמָֽעְלָה׃vamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • For according to the final instructions of David, the Levites twenty years of age or older were counted,

    1 Chronicles 23:27

    • וּלְמָֽעְלָה׃ulemaelahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and to upwards towards
  • Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give for it my personal treasures of gold and silver, over and above all that I have provided for this holy temple:

    1 Chronicles 29:3

    • לְמַ֔עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • The LORD highly exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him royal majesty such as had not been bestowed on any king in Israel before him.

    1 Chronicles 29:25

    • לְמַ֔עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards

2 Chronicles

eleven uses
  • Now Solomon son of David established himself securely over his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and highly exalted him.

    2 Chronicles 1:1

    • לְמָֽעְלָה׃lemaelahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.

    2 Chronicles 4:4

    • מִלְמָ֑עְלָהmilmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.

    2 Chronicles 5:8

    • מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃milmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.

    2 Chronicles 16:12

    • לְמַ֖עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah

    2 Chronicles 17:12

    • לְמָ֑עְלָהlemaelahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • And the Levites from the Kohathites and Korahites stood up to praise the LORD, the God of Israel, shouting in a very loud voice.

    2 Chronicles 20:19

    • לְמָֽעְלָה׃lemaelahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.

    2 Chronicles 25:5

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • The Ammonites brought tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the border of Egypt, for he had become exceedingly powerful.

    2 Chronicles 26:8

    • לְמָֽעְלָה׃lemaelahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • In addition, they distributed portions to the males registered by genealogy who were three years of age or older—to all who would enter the house of the LORD for their daily duties for service in the responsibilities of their divisions—

    2 Chronicles 31:16

    • וּלְמַ֔עְלָהulema'lahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and to upwards towards
  • and to the priests enrolled according to their families in the genealogy, as well as to the Levites twenty years of age or older, according to their duties and divisions.

    2 Chronicles 31:17

    • וּלְמָ֑עְלָהulemaelahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and to upwards towards
  • Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

    2 Chronicles 34:4

    • לְמַ֥עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards

Ezra

two uses
  • In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD.

    Ezra 3:8

    • וָמַ֔עְלָהvama'lahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

    Ezra 9:6

    • לְמַ֣עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards

Job

four uses
  • If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.

    Job 3:4

    • מִמָּ֑עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

    Job 18:16

    • וּ֝מִמַּ֗עַלumimaalconjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and from above
  • For what is the allotment of God from above, or the heritage from the Almighty on high?

    Job 31:2

    • מִמָּ֑עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • this would also be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God on high.

    Job 31:28

    • מִמָּֽעַל׃mimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above

Psalms

two uses
  • like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees

    Psalms 74:5

    • לְמָ֑עְלָהlemaelahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • Yet He commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of the heavens.

    Psalms 78:23

    • מִמָּ֑עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above

Proverbs

two uses
  • when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,

    Proverbs 8:28

    • מִמָּ֑עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • The path of life leads upward for the wise, that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

    Proverbs 15:24

    • לְמַ֣עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and the spirit of the animal descends into the earth?

    Ecclesiastes 3:21

    • לְמָ֑עְלָהlemaelahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards

Isaiah

six uses
  • Above Him stood seraphim, each having six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying.

    Isaiah 6:2

    • מִמַּ֙עַל֙mimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • “Ask for a sign from the LORD your God, whether from the depths of Sheol or the heights of heaven.”

    Isaiah 7:11

    • לְמָֽעְלָה׃lemaelahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.

    Isaiah 8:21

    • לְמָֽעְלָה׃lemaelahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.

    Isaiah 14:13

    • מִמַּ֥עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root below and bear fruit above.

    Isaiah 37:31

    • לְמָֽעְלָה׃lemaelahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • Drip down, O heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open up that salvation may sprout and righteousness spring up with it; I, the LORD, have created it.

    Isaiah 45:8

    • מִמַּ֔עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above

Jeremiah

five uses
  • Therefore the earth will mourn and the heavens above will grow dark. I have spoken, I have planned, and I will not relent or turn back.”

    Jeremiah 4:28

    • מִמָּ֑עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 31:37

    • מִלְמַ֔עְלָהmilma'lahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • and I brought them into the house of the LORD, to a chamber occupied by the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God. This room was near the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.

    Jeremiah 35:4

    • מִמַּ֗עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.

    Jeremiah 43:10

    • מִמַּ֛עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above
  • And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

    Jeremiah 52:32

    • מִמַּ֗עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above

Ezekiel

fifteen uses
  • Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching the wings of the creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.

    Ezekiel 1:11

    • מִלְמָ֑עְלָהmilmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of an awesome expanse, gleaming like crystal.

    Ezekiel 1:22

    • מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃milmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high above was a figure like that of a man.

    Ezekiel 1:26

    • וּמִמַּ֗עַלumimaalconjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: and from above
    • מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃milmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • From what seemed to be His waist up, I saw a gleam like amber, with what looked like fire within it all around. And from what seemed to be His waist down, I saw what looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded Him.

    Ezekiel 1:27

    • וּלְמָ֑עְלָהulemaelahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and to upwards towards
  • Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber.

    Ezekiel 8:2

    • וּלְמַ֔עְלָהulema'lahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and to upwards towards
  • As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them.

    Ezekiel 10:19

    • מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃milmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.

    Ezekiel 11:22

    • מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃milmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • As I looked on, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.

    Ezekiel 37:8

    • מִלְמָ֑עְלָהmilmaelahpreposition + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: from to above towards
  • The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

    Ezekiel 41:7

    • לְמַ֨עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
    • לְמַ֜עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
    • לְמַ֨עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
    • לְמַ֜עְלָהlema'lahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
    • לְמָ֑עְלָהlemaelahpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: to upwards towards
  • The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.

    Ezekiel 43:15

    • וּלְמַ֔עְלָהulema'lahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and to upwards towards

Daniel

two uses
  • One of them said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long until the fulfillment of these wonders?”

    Daniel 12:6

    • מִמַּ֖עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from above
  • And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”

    Daniel 12:7

    • מִמַּעַל֮mimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from above

Amos

one use
  • Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

    Amos 2:9

    • מִמַּ֔עַלmimaalpreposition + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singulartagged: from above

Haggai

two uses
  • Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,

    Haggai 2:15

    • וָמָ֑עְלָהvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards
  • Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:

    Haggai 2:18

    • וָמָ֑עְלָהvamaelahconjunction (“and”) + number (cardinal) · masculine or feminine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: and up -wards

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in the first 120 verses where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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