HebrewH5930Noun (Feminine)

עֹלָה

o.lah

249Occurrences
H5930Strong's #
Noun (Feminine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)

or עוֹלָה; feminine active participle of H5927 (עָלָה);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
whole burnt offering Aramaic equivalent: a.lah (*עֲלָת *"burnt offering" H5928)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Feminine)

Morphology Code

H:N-F

Full Description

H:N-F

Occurrences

עֹלָה appears 249 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Leviticus
54
Numbers
53
2 Chronicles
23
Ezk
17
Exodus
16
1 Chronicles
10
1 Samuel
9
Genesis
7

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 16:1BSB

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.

2 Kings 10:25BSB

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.

Ezk 46:15BSB

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Leviticus 12:6BSB

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.

Numbers 15:8BSB

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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