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

• Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
• Exodus 20:20 “Do not be afraid,” Moses replied. “For God has come to test you, so that the fear of Him may be before you, to keep you from sinning.”
• Exodus 20:24 You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
• Exodus 20:25 Now if you make an altar of stones for Me, you must not build it with stones shaped by tools; for if you use a chisel on it, you will defile it.
• Exodus 20:26 And you must not go up to My altar on steps, lest your nakedness be exposed on it.’
• Exodus 21:14 But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.
• Exodus 21:19 then the one who struck him shall go unpunished, as long as the other can get up and walk around outside with his staff. Nevertheless, he must compensate the man for his lost work and see that he is completely healed.
• Exodus 21:22 If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.
• Exodus 21:30 If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.
• Exodus 22:3 But if it happens after sunrise, there is guilt for his bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution; if he has nothing, he himself shall be sold for his theft.
• Exodus 22:9 In all cases of illegal possession of an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any lost item that someone claims, ‘This is mine,’ both parties shall bring their cases before the judges. The one whom the judges find guilty must pay back double to his neighbor.
• Exodus 22:25 If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
• Exodus 23:2 You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.
• Exodus 23:13 Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.
• Exodus 23:18 You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.
• Exodus 23:29 I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.
• Exodus 24:6 Moses took half of the blood and put it in bowls, and the other half he splattered on the altar.
• Exodus 24:8 So Moses took the blood, splattered it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
• Exodus 24:16 and the glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai. For six days the cloud covered it, and on the seventh day the LORD called to Moses from within the cloud.
• Exodus 25:11 Overlay it with pure gold both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
• Exodus 25:12 Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.
• Exodus 25:14 Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, in order to carry it.
• Exodus 25:19 one cherub on one end and one on the other, all made from one piece of gold.
• Exodus 25:20 And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.
• Exodus 25:21 Set the mercy seat atop the ark and put the Testimony that I will give you into the ark.
• Exodus 25:22 And I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony; I will speak with you about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.
• Exodus 25:26 Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners at its four legs.
• Exodus 25:30 And place the Bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.
• Exodus 25:37 Make seven lamps and set them up on the lampstand so that they illuminate the area in front of it.
• Exodus 26:4 Make loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and do the same for the end curtain in the second set.
• Exodus 26:7 You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.
• Exodus 26:10 Make fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.
• Exodus 26:12 As for the overlap that remains of the tent curtains, the half curtain that is left over shall hang down over the back of the tabernacle.
• Exodus 26:13 And the tent curtains will be a cubit longer on either side, and the excess will hang over the sides of the tabernacle to cover it.
• Exodus 26:24 coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. These will serve as the two corners.
• Exodus 26:32 Hang it with gold hooks on four posts of acacia wood, overlaid with gold and standing on four silver bases.
• Exodus 26:34 Put the mercy seat on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place.
• Exodus 26:35 And place the table outside the veil on the north side of the tabernacle, and put the lampstand opposite the table, on the south side.
• Exodus 27:2 Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.
• Exodus 27:4 Construct for it a grate of bronze mesh, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the mesh.
• Exodus 27:7 The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
• Exodus 27:21 In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.
• Exodus 28:8 And the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod must be of one piece, of the same workmanship—with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.
• Exodus 28:9 Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel:
• Exodus 28:10 six of their names on one stone and the remaining six on the other, in the order of their birth.
• Exodus 28:11 Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings.
• Exodus 28:12 Fasten both stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. Aaron is to bear their names on his two shoulders as a memorial before the LORD.
• Exodus 28:14 and two chains of pure gold, made of braided cord work; and attach these chains to the settings.
• Exodus 28:21 The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
• Exodus 28:22 For the breastpiece, make braided chains like cords of pure gold.
• Exodus 28:23 You are also to make two gold rings and fasten them to the two corners of the breastpiece.
• Exodus 28:24 Then fasten the two gold chains to the two gold rings at the corners of the breastpiece,
• Exodus 28:25 and fasten the other ends of the two chains to the two filigree settings, attaching them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front.
• Exodus 28:26 Make two more gold rings and attach them to the other two corners of the breastpiece, on the inside edge next to the ephod.
• Exodus 28:27 Make two additional gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on its front, near its seam just above its woven waistband.
• Exodus 28:28 The rings of the breastpiece shall be tied to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece is above the waistband of the ephod and does not swing out from the ephod.
• Exodus 28:29 Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he shall bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of judgment, as a continual reminder before the LORD.
• Exodus 28:30 And place the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece of judgment, so that they will also be over Aaron’s heart whenever he comes before the LORD. Aaron will continually carry the judgment of the sons of Israel over his heart before the LORD.
• Exodus 28:33 Make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn all the way around the lower hem, with gold bells between them,
• Exodus 28:34 alternating the gold bells and pomegranates around the lower hem of the robe.