עֶלְיוֹן

el.yon · Most High

Hebrew · Strong's H5945 · Noun · Sounds like: el-yone' · 53 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • Most High H5945B · in Hebrew of 25
  • high H5945A 20
  • (LORD) Most High H5945H · a Part of 5
  • Upper (Beth Horon) H5945G · a Part of 3

Strong's dictionary

from עָלָה; an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme; (Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
עֶלְיוֹן 22 adj.
1. high
2. upper Bethhoron, the upper (opp. lower) of house
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
עֶלְיוֹן n.m. Highest, Most High
1. name of God
2. of rulers, either monarchs or angel-princes

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Chronicles 7:21 עֶלְי֔וֹן el.Yon · Describes something

    And this house, which is so high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house?

  2. 2 Chronicles 8:5 הָֽעֶלְי֔וֹן ha.'el.Yon · Describes something

    Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

  3. 2 Chronicles 23:20 הָֽעֶלְי֖וֹן ha.'el.Yon · Describes something

    And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of Jehovah: and they came through the upper gate unto the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

  4. 2 Chronicles 27:3 הָעֶלְי֑וֹן ha.'el.Yon · Describes something

    He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

  5. 2 Chronicles 32:30 הָֽעֶלְי֔וֹן ha.'el.Yon · Describes something

    This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

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