Definition

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

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H5921 (עַל)

Where the KJV renders it

• about
• against
• concerning
• for
• (there-) fore
• from
• in
• more
• of
• (there-
• up-) on
• (in-) to
• why with

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.