Aramaic word · H5928

עֲלָת

la'alavan

burnt offering

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears once in the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

burnt offering, holocaust

Aramaic of o.lah (עֹלָה "burnt offering" H5930A)

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 6:9 לַעֲלָוָ֣ן׀ for burnt offerings

    Whatever is needed—young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, as well as wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem—must be given to them daily without fail.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.