Strong H5945H5945Aעֶלְיוֹן

Definition

General definition

In the Bible

Strong H5945A appears in 20 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

• high7
• upper5
• higher3
• thee2
• be1
• highest1
• uppermost1

First verses

1. Genesis 40:17
   And 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.
2. Deuteronomy 26:19
   And 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.
3. Deuteronomy 28:1
   And 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:
4. 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?
5. 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.
6. 2 Kings 18:17
   And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab–shakeh 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.
7. 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?
8. 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.
9. 2 Chronicles 27:3
   He built the high gate of the house of the Lord, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
10. 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.
11. Nehemiah 3:25
    Palal 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.
12. Psalms 89:27
    Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
13. Psalms 97:9
    For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
14. Isaiah 7:3
    Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear–jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field;
15. Isaiah 36:2
    And 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.
16. Jeremiah 20:2
    Then 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.
17. Jeremiah 36:10
    Then 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.

Occurrences by book

• Genesis1
• Deuteronomy2
• 1 Kings1
• 2 Kings2
• 2 Chronicles4
• Nehemiah1
• Psalms2
• Isaiah2
• Jeremiah2
• Ezekiel3