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עֶלְיוֹן H5945

ʻelyôwn

el-yone'

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

Brown–Driver–Briggs

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

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


53 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • 2 Samuel 22:14
    The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
  • 1 Kings 9:8
    And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
  • 2 Kings 15:35
    Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
  • 2 Kings 18:17
    And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against 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.
  • 1 Chronicles 7:24
    (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)
  • 2 Chronicles 7:21
    And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
  • 2 Chronicles 8:5
    Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
  • 2 Chronicles 23:20
    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 the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.
  • 2 Chronicles 27:3
    He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
  • 2 Chronicles 32:30
    This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.