עַל ʻal

Meaning

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

In the King James Version: above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.

Derivation: properly, the same as H5920 (עַל) used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following);

Where it is used

• Job 20:13 though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,
• Job 20:21 Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.
• Job 20:23 When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
• Job 20:25 It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.
• Job 21:5 Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
• Job 21:9 Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
• Job 21:17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
• Job 21:26 But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
• Job 21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
• Job 21:31 Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
• Job 21:32 He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
• Job 22:2 “Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
• Job 22:10 Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;
• Job 22:24 and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,
• Job 22:26 Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.
• Job 22:28 Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.
• Job 23:2 “Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
• Job 23:15 Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him.
• Job 24:9 The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
• Job 24:18 They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.
• Job 24:23 He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
• Job 25:3 Can His troops be numbered? On whom does His light not rise?
• Job 26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
• Job 26:9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
• Job 26:10 He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
• Job 27:9 Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?
• Job 27:10 Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
• Job 27:22 It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
• Job 27:23 It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
• Job 28:8 Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.
• Job 29:3 when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,
• Job 29:4 when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,
• Job 29:7 When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,
• Job 29:13 The dying man blessed me, and I made the widow’s heart sing for joy.
• Job 29:22 After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew.
• Job 30:1 “But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.
• Job 30:2 What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
• Job 30:4 They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
• Job 30:5 They were banished from among men, shouted at like thieves,
• Job 30:12 The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.
• Job 30:15 Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
• Job 30:16 And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
• Job 30:17 Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
• Job 30:30 My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
• Job 31:1 “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
• Job 31:5 If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,
• Job 31:9 If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
• Job 31:10 then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
• Job 31:21 if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
• Job 31:36 Surely I would carry it on my shoulder and wear it like a crown.
• Job 31:38 if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together,
• Job 32:2 This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,
• Job 32:3 and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
• Job 32:6 So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite declared: “I am young in years, while you are old; that is why I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know.
• Job 33:7 Surely no fear of me should terrify you; nor will my hand be heavy upon you.
• Job 33:10 Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
• Job 33:15 In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
• Job 33:19 A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
• Job 33:23 Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
• Job 33:27 Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.