Lexicon maaleh: an ascent Original Word: מַעֲלֶהPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: maaleh Phonetic Spelling: (mah-al-eh') Short Definition: ascent NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom alahDefinitionan ascent NASB Translationascent (9), platform (1), slope (1), stairway (4), upper section (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מַעֲלֶה19 noun masculineIsaiah 15:5 ascent; — ׳מ Nehemiah 12:37; construct מַעֲלֵה Joshua 10:10 14t.; מַעֲלָו֯ Ezekiel 40:31,34,37; 1 ascent of hill or mountain: to a city 1 Samuel 9:11, to the royal sepulchers (in Jerusalem) 2Chronicles 32:33; הַזֵּיתִית ׳מִ 2 Samuel 15:30 (see זַיִת 3); עַקְרַבִּים ׳מ = Srorpion-pass, on southern border of Palestine, Judges 1:36; Numbers 36:4; Joshua 15:3 (both P), i.e. probably the Na‡b eƒ-ƒafâ southwest from Dead Sea BuhlGeogr. 16. 66 Di and GFM on the passage, and references; often defined by proper name, of a location: אֲדֻמִים ׳מ Joshua 15:7; Joshua 18:17, south of valley of Achor, between Jerusalem and Jericho, compare modern Tel`at ed-dâm BuhlGeogr. 98.; see also בֵּית חוֺרֹן I. גּוּר, II. חֶרֶס, לוּחִית, II. ציץ. 2 of stairs Ezekiel 40:31,34,37; to a wall Nehemiah 12:27; מַעֵלֵה הַלִּוִיִּם Nehemiah 9:4. p.111, 158, 357, 532, 851
Strong's ascent, cliff, going up, hill, mounting up, From alah; an elevation, i.e. (concretely) acclivity or platform; abstractly (the relation or state) a rise or (figuratively) priority -- ascent, before, chiefest, cliff, that goeth up, going up, hill, mounting up, stairs. see HEBREW alah |
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