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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.

  • Ezekiel 9:2
    And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
  • Ezekiel 41:7
    And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
  • Ezekiel 42:5
    Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.