עֵ֫לָּא
above
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Every verse where H5924 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 1 verse
About this entry
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עלא — transliterated ʻêllâʼ — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “above.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (100% of all occurrences). A true hapax — its single appearance is Daniel 6:2. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5924 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Over 1×
- American Standard Version: Over 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Over them 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Over them were 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5924 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5924 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5924 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- above
Word origin
עֵ֫לָּא adv. above;— Dn 6:3
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from על (ʻal) (H5922) — upon.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עֵיל
- (עוּל) = h. עָל, height, heaven. Targ. Job XXXVII, 9 עִילָא.—ע׳ מן, לע׳ מן above, over. [Dan. VI, 3 עֵלָּא.] Targ. Y. Gen. I, 7. Targ. Gen. XXII, 9. Targ. Num. I, 3 (O. ed. Vien. לעֵלָּא); a. v. fr.—מִלְּעֵ׳ from on high, above. Targ. Ps. L, 4. Targ. I Chr. XI, 11; a. fr.—B. Bath. 45ᵃ דסלקין לע׳ ודנחתין לתתא (for) those who go up (to Palestine) and those who come down (to Babylonia). Y. ib. VI, end, 15ᶜ חדא מלע׳ וכ׳ one (grave) above and one below. Sabb. 30ᵃ שאול … לע׳ מר׳ תנחום they asked this question over (the head of) R. Tanḥum, i.e. those standing by him when he was teaching (v. אֲמוֹרָא). Ḥull. 51ᵃ לע׳ מרבי רבה with the great Rabbi when he was teaching; a. fr.—עִילוֹי upon him. Targ. Y. Gen. XXVIII, 13; a. e.—Y. Ber. II, 4ᶜ bot. כד הויין תפילוי ע׳ when he had his T’fillin on. Ib. ולא סמכין ע׳ but we do not rely upon him, a. e.—[Usu. עִילַוֵּיה, v. עִילָוֵי, or עֲלוֹי, v. עַל ch.] e.g. Daniel 6:3
עֵל
- , v. עֵיל
עֲלָא
- = h. עָלֶה, leaf.—Pl. עֲלַיָּא, עֲלַיָּה, עֲלָיֵי. Y. Shebi. V, 35ᵈ bot. [read:] שיתין יומין שיתא ע׳ שיתא יומין שיתין ע׳ the first sixty days bring forth six leaves, the next six days, sixty leaves. Ḥull. 92ᵃ, v. אִיתְכָּלָא. Y. Shek. VI, 50ᵃ bot., v. תְּרַפְיוֹן.
עֲלֵי
- Targ. Koh. III, 11 עולי ריגלאין (h. form) pilgrims to Jerusalem, v. preced.
- (v. preced.Hif. c) to balance; to estimate, value (corresp. to h. ערך). Targ. Job XXVIII, 17; 19. Targ. Y. Lev. XXVII, 8; a. fr.—Part. pass. מַעֲלֵי, v. infra.
- 1. to be elevated, exalted. Targ. Ps. XLVII, 10; a. e.
- 2. to be lifted up, be relieved of a burden. Targ. Prov. XIX, 19 כמא דמִתְעַלֵּי וכ׳ (ed. Lag. מַעֲלֵי, Pesh. מעלא) the more he is relieved, the more he adds to his burden (i.e. the more you attempt to quiet him, the angrier he gets; h. text כי אם תציל).—[Ithpe. אִתְעֲלֵי to be carried in, v. עֲלַל.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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