עֶלְיוֹן

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)

Every occurrence

1. Genesis 14:18 עֶלְיֽוֹן׃ el.Yon · Describes something

   And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

2. Genesis 14:19 עֶלְי֔וֹן el.Yon · Describes something

   And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:

3. Genesis 14:20 עֶלְי֔וֹן el.Yon · Describes something

   and blessed be God Most High, who hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him a tenth of all.

4. Genesis 14:22 עֶלְי֔וֹן el.Yon · Describes something

   And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

5. Genesis 40:17 הָֽעֶלְי֔וֹן ha.'el.yOn · Describes something

   and in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of baked food for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

6. Numbers 24:16 עֶלְי֑וֹן el.Yon · Describes something

   He saith, who heareth the words of God, And knoweth the knowledge of the Most High, Who seeth the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:

7. Deuteronomy 26:19 עֶלְי֗וֹן el.Yon · Describes something

   and to make thee high above all nations that he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest be a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, as he hath spoken.

8. Deuteronomy 28:1 עֶלְי֔וֹן el.Yon · Describes something

   And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth:

9. Deuteronomy 32:8 עֶלְיוֹן֙ 'el.yOn · Describes something

   When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.

10. Joshua 16:5 עֶלְיֽוֹן׃ el.Yon · A person, place or thing

    And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: the border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper;

11. 2 Samuel 22:14 וְעֶלְי֖וֹן ve.'el.Yon · Describes something

    Jehovah thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered his voice.

12. 1 Kings 9:8 עֶלְי֔וֹן el.Yon · Describes something

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

13. 2 Kings 15:35 הָעֶלְיֽוֹן׃ ha.'el.Yon · Describes something

    Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah.

14. 2 Kings 18:17 הָֽעֶלְיוֹנָ֔ה ha.'el.yo.Nah · Describes something

    And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.

15. 1 Chronicles 7:24 הָעֶלְי֑וֹן ha.'el.Yon · Describes something

    And his daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth-horon the nether and the upper, and Uzzen-sheerah.

16. 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?

17. 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;

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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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