Word meanings
Strong's dictionary
from עָלָה; properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.; above, exceeding(-ly), forward, on ([idiom] very) high, over, up(-on, -ward), very.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מַ֫עַל 140 subst., higher part, only in adv. and prep. phrases, above, upward
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Amos 2:9 מִמַּ֔עַל mi.Ma.'al · Describes something
Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.