עֹלָה olah

Hebrew word for “burnt offering” · Strong’s H5930 · used 287 times in 261 verses

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Meaning

whole burnt offering; Aramaic equivalent: a.lah (עֲלָת "burnt offering" H5928)

Senses in the lexicon

• burnt offering (286)
• ascent (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for olah in context, with how often each is used:

• burnt offering 212
• burnt offerings 72
• like the burnt offering 1
• more than burnt offerings 1
• stairways 1

Where it is used

Also in 11 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 29 (15), Numbers 7 (13), Numbers 28 (12), Leviticus 9 (10), Leviticus 4 (9), 2 Chronicles 29 (9), Leviticus 1 (8), Genesis 22 (6), Leviticus 14 (5), Deuteronomy 12 (5)

Forms

• העלה 61
• לעלה 37
• עלה 37
• עלות 34
• עלת 27
• עולה 19
• העולה 12
• עלתו 6
• עלתיך 5
• ועלות 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with olah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 67
• זֶבַח zevach “sacrifice” 43
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 64
• חַטָּאת chattat “sin” 47
• שֶׁלֶם shelem “peace offering” 37
• מִנְחָה minchah “offering” 43
• כֶּבֶשׂ keves “lamb” 37
• אַיִל ayil “ram” 41
• פַּר par “bullock” 35
• אֶחָד echad “one” 49
• בָּקָר baqar “cattle” 34
• נֶסֶךְ nesekh “drink offering” 26

Key verses

The verses using olah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 20:24 — An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places…
• Leviticus 1:3 — If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the…
• Leviticus 1:4 — And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
• Leviticus 9:24 — And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and…
• Deuteronomy 12:11 — Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt…
• 1 Samuel 15:22 — And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than…
• Job 1:5 — And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt…
• Job 42:8 — Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall…
• Psalms 66:13 — I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
• Isaiah 1:11 — To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight…
• Ezekiel 45:17 — And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths,…
• Micah 6:6 — Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.