מַ֫עַל

ma.al · above

Hebrew · Strong's H4605 · Adjective · Sounds like: mah'al · 140 occurrences

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.

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Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מַ֫עַל 140 subst., higher part, only in adv. and prep. phrases, above, upward

Every occurrence

  1. Job 3:4 מִמָּ֑עַל mi.Ma.'al · Describes something

    Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

  2. Job 18:16 וּ֝מִמַּ֗עַל u.mi.Ma.'al · Describes something

    His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

  3. Job 31:2 מִמָּ֑עַל mi.Ma.'al · Describes something

    For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

  4. Job 31:28 מִמָּֽעַל׃ mi.Ma.'al · Describes something

    This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.

  5. Psalms 74:5 לְמָ֑עְלָה le.Ma.'e.lah · Describes something

    They seemed as men that lifted up Axes upon a thicket of trees.

  6. Psalms 78:23 מִמָּ֑עַל mi.Ma.'al · Describes something

    Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;

  7. Proverbs 8:28 מִמָּ֑עַל mi.Ma.'al · Describes something

    When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,

  8. Proverbs 15:24 לְמַ֣עְלָה le.Ma'.lah · Describes something

    To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.

  9. Ecclesiastes 3:21 לְמָ֑עְלָה le.Ma.'e.lah · Describes something

    Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?

  10. Isaiah 6:2 מִמַּ֙עַל֙ mi.Ma.'al · Describes something

    Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

  11. Isaiah 7:11 לְמָֽעְלָה׃ le.Ma.'e.lah · Describes something

    Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

  12. Isaiah 8:21 לְמָֽעְלָה׃ le.Ma.'e.lah · Describes something

    And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:

  13. Isaiah 14:13 מִמַּ֥עַל mi.Ma.'al · Describes something

    And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;

  14. Isaiah 37:31 לְמָֽעְלָה׃ le.Ma.'e.lah · Describes something

    And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

  15. Isaiah 45:8 מִמַּ֔עַל mi.Ma.'al · Describes something

    Distil, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together; I, Jehovah, have created it.

  16. Jeremiah 4:28 מִמָּ֑עַל mi.Ma.'al · Describes something

    For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.

  17. Jeremiah 31:37 מִלְמַ֔עְלָה mil.Ma'.lah · Describes something

    Thus saith Jehovah: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith Jehovah.

  18. Jeremiah 35:4 מִמַּ֗עַל mi.Ma.'al · Describes something

    and I brought them into the house of Jehovah, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

  19. Jeremiah 43:10 מִמַּ֛עַל mi.Ma.'al · Describes something

    and say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

  20. Jeremiah 52:32 מִמַּ֗עַל mi.Ma.'al · Describes something

    and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

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