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Strong’s H5945 · Hebrew

עֶלְיוֹן

ʻelyôwn · el-yone'

Origin from עָלָה (H5927);

Meaning an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme

In the King James Version (Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most).

In 53 verses of the King James Version

1–50 of 53

  1. Genesis 14:18And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
  2. Genesis 14:19And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
  3. Genesis 14:20And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
  4. Genesis 14:22And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
  5. Genesis 40:17And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
  6. Numbers 24:16He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
  7. Deuteronomy 26:19And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
  8. Deuteronomy 28:1And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
  9. Deuteronomy 32:8When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
  10. Joshua 16:5And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
  11. 2 Samuel 22:14The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
  12. 1 Kings 9:8And 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?
  13. 2 Kings 15:35Howbeit 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.
  14. 2 Kings 18:17And 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.
  15. 1 Chronicles 7:24(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)
  16. 2 Chronicles 7:21And 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?
  17. 2 Chronicles 8:5Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
  18. 2 Chronicles 23:20And 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.
  19. 2 Chronicles 27:3He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
  20. 2 Chronicles 32:30This 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.
  21. Nehemiah 3:25Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king’s high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
  22. Psalms 7:17I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
  23. Psalms 9:2I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
  24. Psalms 18:13The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
  25. Psalms 21:7For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
  26. Psalms 46:4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
  27. Psalms 47:2For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
  28. Psalms 50:14Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
  29. Psalms 57:2I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
  30. Psalms 73:11And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
  31. Psalms 77:10And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
  32. Psalms 78:17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
  33. Psalms 78:35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
  34. Psalms 78:56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
  35. Psalms 82:6I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
  36. Psalms 83:18That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
  37. Psalms 87:5And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
  38. Psalms 89:27Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
  39. Psalms 91:1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
  40. Psalms 91:9Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
  41. Psalms 92:1A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
  42. Psalms 97:9For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
  43. Psalms 107:11Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
  44. Isaiah 7:3Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field;
  45. Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
  46. Isaiah 36:2And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
  47. Jeremiah 20:2Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
  48. Jeremiah 36:10Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD’S house, in the ears of all the people.
  49. Lamentations 3:35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
  50. Lamentations 3:38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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