Midvash

עֹלָהʻôlâh

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

Pronunciation: o-law' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5930

Meanings

עֹלָה: (that which goes up (√ 6) to heaven (al. on altar)), the whole burnt-offering (beast or fowl) is entirely consumed and goes up in the flame of the altar to God (Genesis 22:3; Numbers 28:37; Exodus 29:42; Numbers 28:24; Psalms 20:4)

עֹלָה: ascent, stairway, read probably מַעֲלָתוֺ (Ezekiel 40:26)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 287 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and there he sacrificed as burnt offerings the animals and birds that had been approved for that purpose.
  • Genesis 22:2 “Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
  • Genesis 22:3 The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about.
  • Genesis 22:6 So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together,
  • Genesis 22:7 Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”
  • Genesis 22:8 “God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham answered. And they both walked on together.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).