Strong H59212 sensesעַל
upon · since
- Transliteration
- ‛al
- Pronunciation
- al
The 2 senses of Strong H5921
The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H5921 appears in 49 verses of the KJV, all senses together.
General definition
Properly the same as H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or {plural} often with {prefix} or as conjugation with a particle following);
{above} over 6
{upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications: - {above} according to ({-ly}) {after} (as) {against} {among} {and} X {as} {at} because {of} beside (the rest {of}) {between} beyond the {time} X both {and} by (reason {of}) X had the charge {of} concerning {for} in ({that}) ({forth} out) {of} (from) ({off}) (up-) {on} {over} {than} through ({-out}) {to} {touching} X with.
{above} over 6
{upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications: - {above} according to ({-ly}) {after} (as) {against} {among} {and} X {as} {at} because {of} beside (the rest {of}) {between} beyond the {time} X both {and} by (reason {of}) X had the charge {of} concerning {for} in ({that}) ({forth} out) {of} (from) ({off}) (up-) {on} {over} {than} through ({-out}) {to} {touching} X with.
In the Bible
Translated in the KJV by
- beside3
- in3
- upon3
- above2
- accord2
- against2
- by2
- from2
- off2
- out2
- after1
- among1
First verses
- Genesis 1:2And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
- Genesis 1:7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
- Genesis 1:20And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
- Genesis 4:14Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
- Genesis 6:1And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
- Genesis 7:4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
- Genesis 8:1And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
- Genesis 14:6And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El–paran, which is by the wilderness.
- Genesis 18:5And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
- Genesis 19:17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
- Genesis 24:9And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
- Genesis 24:30And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
- Genesis 24:64And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
- Genesis 27:41And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
- Genesis 31:20And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
- Genesis 31:50If thou shalt afflict my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.
- Genesis 32:11Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
- Genesis 40:2And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
- Genesis 40:17And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
- Genesis 43:7And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?