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Lexicon :: Strong's G5308 - hypsēlos

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ὑψηλός
Transliteration
hypsēlos (Key)
Pronunciation
hoop-say-los'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

ὑψηλός hupsēlŏs, hoop-say-los'; from G5311; lofty (in place or character):—high(-er, -ly) (esteemed).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's G5308 in the following manner: high (8x), higher (1x), highly esteemed (1x), high things (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's G5308 in the following manner: high (8x), higher (1x), highly esteemed (1x), high things (1x).

  1. high, lofty

    1. exalted on high

    2. with an uplifted arm, i.e. with signal power

  2. metaph. eminent, exalted

    1. in influence and honour

    2. to set the mind on, to seek, high things (as honours and riches), to be aspiring

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὑψηλός hupsēlŏs, hoop-say-los'; from G5311; lofty (in place or character):—high(-er, -ly) (esteemed).
STRONGS G5308:
ὑψηλός, ὑψηλή, ὑψηλόν (ὕψι on high, ὕψος) (from Homer down), high; lofty;
a. properly, of place: ὄρος, Matthew 4:8; Matthew 17:1; Mark 9:2; Luke 4:5 R G L brackets; Revelation 21:10; τεῖχος, Revelation 21:12; neuter τά ὑψηλά (the heights of heaven; the Sept. for מָרום, Psalm 92:4 (Ps. 93:4); Psalm 112:5 (Ps. 113:5); Isaiah 33:5; Isaiah 57:15), heaven (A. V. on high; cf. Buttmann, § 124, 8 d.), Hebrews 1:3; exalted on high: ὑψηλότερος τῶν οὐρανῶν (made higher than the heavens), of Christ raised to the right hand of God, Hebrews 7:26 (cf. Ephesians 4:10); μετά βραχίονος ὑψηλοῦ, with a high (uplifted) arm, i. e. with signal power, Acts 13:17 (the Sept. often ἐν βραχίονι ὑψηλῷ for נְטוּיָה בִּזְרועַ, as in Exodus 6:6; Deuteronomy 5:15).
b. metaphorically, eminent, exulted: in influence and honor, Luke 16:15; ὑψηλά φρονεῖν, to set the mind on, to seek, high things (as honors and riches), to be aspiring, Romans 12:16; also Romans 11:20 L marginal reading T Tr WH; 1 Timothy 6:17 T WH marginal reading; (Lucian, Icaromen. 11, Hermot. 5).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Exodus
6:6
Deuteronomy
5:15
Psalms
92:4; 93:4; 112:5; 113:5
Isaiah
33:5; 57:15
Matthew
4:8; 17:1
Mark
9:2
Luke
4:5; 16:15
Acts
13:17
Romans
11:20; 12:16
Ephesians
4:10
1 Timothy
6:17
Hebrews
1:3; 7:26
Revelation
21:10; 21:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G5308 matches the Greek ὑψηλός (hypsēlos),
which occurs 185 times in 165 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 2 / 4 (2Ki 17:36–Pro 18:19)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:36 - But the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:4 - He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:22 - But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:5 - And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:8 - And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:9 - Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:15 - Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:19 - And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:20 - And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:3 - So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 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?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3 - For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:17 - But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:6 - And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:33 - Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:11 - Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 27:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:3 - He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:4 - He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:25 - And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:12 - Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:3 - For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:17 - Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:19 - His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:3 - For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:25 - And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 - Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:8 - It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:12 - Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:5 - Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:34 - He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:33 - He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 89:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:27 - Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 93:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 93:4 - The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 99:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 99:2 - The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:18 - The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 113:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:4 - The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 113:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:5 - Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 136:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 136:12 - With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 138:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:6 - Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:2 - She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 9:3 - She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:21 - The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:16 - Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:19 - A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

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1. LOAD PAGE 1 Gen 7:19–2Ki 17:32

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3. LOAD PAGE 3 Pro 25:3–Eze 9:2

4. LOAD PAGE 4 Eze 17:22–Zep 1:16

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