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

• Psalms 142:7 Free my soul from prison, that I may praise Your name. The righteous will gather around me because of Your goodness to me.
• Psalms 143:4 My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
• Psalms 145:9 The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.
• Psalms 146:5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
• Psalms 148:4 Praise Him, O highest heavens, and you waters above the skies.
• Psalms 148:13 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for His name alone is exalted; His splendor is above the earth and the heavens.
• Psalms 149:5 Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.
• Proverbs 1:27 when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
• Proverbs 2:11 Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,
• Proverbs 3:3 Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
• Proverbs 3:29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.
• Proverbs 4:15 Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.
• Proverbs 5:8 Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
• Proverbs 6:15 Therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in an instant he will be shattered beyond recovery.
• Proverbs 6:21 Bind them always upon your heart; tie them around your neck.
• Proverbs 6:22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
• Proverbs 6:28 Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
• Proverbs 7:3 Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
• Proverbs 7:14 “I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.
• Proverbs 7:15 So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.
• Proverbs 8:2 On the heights overlooking the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand.
• Proverbs 8:27 I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
• Proverbs 8:34 Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.
• Proverbs 9:3 She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city.
• Proverbs 9:14 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,
• Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.
• Proverbs 13:11 Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.
• Proverbs 14:14 The backslider in heart receives the fill of his own ways, but a good man is rewarded for his ways.
• Proverbs 14:19 The evil bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
• Proverbs 16:10 A divine verdict is on the lips of a king; his mouth must not betray justice.
• Proverbs 16:20 Whoever heeds instruction will find success, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.
• Proverbs 16:23 The heart of the wise man instructs his mouth and adds persuasiveness to his lips.
• Proverbs 16:26 A worker’s appetite works for him because his hunger drives him onward.
• Proverbs 16:27 A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.
• Proverbs 17:4 A wicked man listens to evil lips; a liar gives ear to a destructive tongue.
• Proverbs 17:26 It is surely not good to punish the innocent or to flog a noble for his honesty.
• Proverbs 19:3 A man’s own folly subverts his way, yet his heart rages against the LORD.
• Proverbs 19:11 A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.
• Proverbs 19:12 A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
• Proverbs 20:8 A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
• Proverbs 20:26 A wise king separates out the wicked and drives the threshing wheel over them.
• Proverbs 21:1 The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
• Proverbs 21:9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
• Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
• Proverbs 22:18 for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.
• Proverbs 23:30 Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.
• Proverbs 24:13 Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
• Proverbs 24:18 or the LORD will see and disapprove, and turn His wrath away from him.
• Proverbs 24:25 but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and rich blessing will come upon them.
• Proverbs 24:30 I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
• Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
• Proverbs 25:12 Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.
• Proverbs 25:20 Like one who removes a garment on a cold day or vinegar poured on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
• Proverbs 25:22 For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.
• Proverbs 25:24 Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
• Proverbs 25:25 Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.
• Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
• Proverbs 26:14 As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.
• Proverbs 26:17 Like one who grabs a dog by the ears is a passerby who meddles in a quarrel not his own.
• Proverbs 26:23 Like glaze covering an earthen vessel are burning lips and a wicked heart.