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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.

  • Psalms 77:10
    And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
  • Psalms 78:17
    And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
  • Psalms 78:35
    And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
  • Psalms 78:56
    Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
  • Psalms 82:6
    I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
  • Psalms 83:18
    That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
  • Psalms 87:5
    And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
  • Psalms 89:27
    Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
  • Psalms 91:1
    He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
  • Psalms 91:9
    Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;