Strong's Hebrew · H5930

עֹלָה

ʻôlâh · o-law'

ascent, burnt offering (sacrifice), go up to. See also H5766 (עֶוֶל).

Definition

a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)

Derivation

or עוֹלָה; feminine active participle of H5927 (עָלָה);

Appears 287 times in Scripture

Genesis 22:6

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.

Exodus 10:25

But Moses replied, “You must also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God.

Genesis 22:13

Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

Genesis 22:8

Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two walked on together.

Exodus 32:6

So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.

Genesis 22:7

Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

Leviticus 9:2

He said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD.

Genesis 22:2

“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

Genesis 22:3

So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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