Strong's Hebrew · H5945

H5945 ʻelyôwn

עֶלְיוֹן

el-yone'

high

ʻelyôwn appears 53 times in Scripture, including Genesis 14:18 and Numbers 24:16. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

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

In the King James Version

(Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most).

Derivation

from H5927 (עָלָה);

Appears 53 times in Scripture

Genesis 14:18

“Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine—since he was priest of God Most High—”

Genesis 14:19

“and he blessed Abram and said: “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,”

Genesis 14:20

“and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything.”

Genesis 14:22

“But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,”

Isaiah 14:14

“I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.””

Numbers 24:16

“the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:”

Genesis 40:17

“In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.””

Psalms 107:11

“because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.”

Ezekiel 41:7

“The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.”

2 Kings 18:17

“Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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Strong's concordance glosses from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0). Scripture quotations are from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain.

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