Lexicon :: Strong's H5927 - ʿālâ

But mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground.

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev ​— ​he, his wife, and all he had, and Lot with him.

When he finished talking with him, God withdrew[fn] from Abraham.

At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment[fn] of the city.”

He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw that smoke was going up from the land like the smoke of a furnace.

Lot departed from Zoar and lived in the mountains along with his two daughters, because he was afraid to live in Zoar. Instead, he and his two daughters lived in a cave.

“Take your son,” he said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”

Abraham looked up and saw a ram[fn] caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin ​— ​no man had been intimate with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up.

From there he went up to Beer-sheba,

And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching the sky, and God’s angels were going up and down on it.

“When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

“And he said, ‘Look up and see: all the males that are mating with the flocks are streaked, spotted, and speckled, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Then he said to Jacob, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.”

But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

“We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone.”

Then God withdrew[fn] from him at the place where he had spoken to him.

When Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph to Egypt.

After a long time[fn] Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers.

“On the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, its blossoms came out and its clusters ripened into grapes.

when seven healthy-looking, well-fed cows came up from the Nile and began to graze among the reeds.

He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and good, came up on one stalk.

“when seven well-fed, healthy-looking cows came up from the Nile and grazed among the reeds.

“In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stalk.

“The seven thin, sickly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the east wind are seven years of famine.

Then Joseph said, “I swear that I will not do this. The man in whose possession the cup was found will be my slave. The rest of you can go in peace to your father.”

“This is what happened when we went back to your servant my father: We reported to him the words of my lord.

“Now please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave, in place of the boy. Let him go back with his brothers.

“Return quickly to my father and say to him, ‘This is what your son Joseph says: “God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me without delay.

So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

“I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you back. Joseph will close your eyes when you die.”[fn]

Joseph hitched the horses to his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, threw his arms around him, and wept for a long time.

Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s family, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh, telling him, ‘My brothers and my father’s family, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

“Turbulent as water, you will not excel,

because you got into your father’s bed

and you defiled it ​— ​he[fn] got into my bed.

“Judah is a young lion —

my son, you return from the kill.

He crouches; he lies down like a lion

or a lioness ​— ​who dares to rouse him?

“my father made me take an oath, saying, ‘I am about to die. You must bury me there in the tomb that I made for myself in the land of Canaan.’ Now let me go and bury my father. Then I will return.”

Horses and chariots went up with him; it was a very impressive procession.

After Joseph buried his father, he returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone with him to bury his father.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

“Come, let’s deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and when war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor, they cried out, and their cry for help because of the difficult labor ascended to God.