עֹלָה
o.lah
“burnt offering”
Definition
a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)
or עוֹלָה; feminine active participle of H5927 (עָלָה);
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
עֹלָה appears 249 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
So they brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they presented burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
When he had finished making the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Do not let anyone out.”So the guards and officers put them to the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.
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When the days of her purification are complete, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.
When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,
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