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Lexicon :: Strong's H5945 - ʿelyôn

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עֶלְיוֹן
Transliteration
ʿelyôn
Pronunciation
el-yone'
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Part of Speech
adjective, masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1624g,1624h

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: עליון.

Strong’s Definitions

עֶלְיוֹן ʻelyôwn, el-yone'; from H5927; an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (comparison); as title, the Supreme:—(Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 53x

The KJV translates Strong's H5945 in the following manner: High (18x), most high (9x), high (9x), upper (8x), higher (4x), highest (2x), above (1x), Highest (1x), uppermost (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 53x
The KJV translates Strong's H5945 in the following manner: High (18x), most high (9x), high (9x), upper (8x), higher (4x), highest (2x), above (1x), Highest (1x), uppermost (1x).
adjective
  1. high, upper

    1. of Davidic king exalted above monarchs

      masculine noun
  2. Highest, Most High

    1. name of God

    2. of rulers, either monarchs or angel-princes

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֶלְיוֹן ʻelyôwn, el-yone'; from H5927; an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (comparison); as title, the Supreme:—(Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most).
STRONGS H5945: Abbreviations
I. עֶלְיוֺן 22 adjective
1. high; — masculine singular ע׳ Deuteronomy 26:19; Deuteronomy 28:1; 1 Kings 9:8 (? reading הַבַּיִת הַזֶּה הָע׳ as LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Benz) = 2 Chronicles 7:21, of י׳ Psalm 97:9.
2. upper Bethhoron, ע׳ Joshua 16:5 העליון 1 Chronicles 7:24; 2 Chronicles 8:5, the upper (opposed to lower), of house Nehemiah 3:25; compare 2 Kings 15:35; 2 Chronicles 23:20 + 5 times, + Genesis 40:17 (uppermost basket); feminine singular הָעֶלְיוֺנָה the upper pool 2 Kings 18:17 = Isaiah 36:2; Isaiah 7:3; the highest side-chamber (צֵלָע) Ezekiel 41:7; feminine plural הָעֶלְיוֺנֹת Ezekiel 42:5 the upper chambers (לְשָׁכוֺת).
3. of Davidic king exalted above monarchs Psalm 89:28 [Psalm 89:27] (compare Deuteronomy 28:1, above).

† II. עֶלְיוֺן noun masculine Highest, Most High (probably = foregoing (above)); —
1. name of God Numbers 24:16; Deuteronomy 32:8; Psalm 18:14 [Psalm 18:13] [= 2 Samuel 22:14; Psalm 9:3 [Psalm 9:2]; Psalm 21:8 [Psalm 21:7]; Psalm 46:5 [Psalm 46:4]; Psalm 50:14; Psalm 73:11; Psalm 77:11 [Psalm 77:10]; Psalm 78:17; Psalm 83:19 [Psalm 83:18]; Psalm 87:5; Psalm 91:1; Psalm 91:9; Psalm 92:2 [Psalm 92:1]; Psalm 107:11; Isaiah 14:14; Lamentations 3:35, Lamentations 3:38; with other divine names: אל עליון Genesis 14:18, Genesis 14:19, Genesis 14:20, Genesis 14:22 (see Di) Psalm 78:35; יהוה עליון Psalm 7:18 [Psalm 7:17]; Psalm 47:3; אלהים עליון Psalm 57:3 [Psalm 47:2]; Psalm 78:56.
2. of rulers, either monarchs or angel-princes, בְּנֵי עֶלְיוֺן = אלהים Psalm 82:6.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

14:18; 14:19; 14:20; 14:22; 40:17

Numbers

24:16

Deuteronomy

26:19; 28:1; 28:1; 32:8

Joshua

16:5

2 Samuel

22:14

1 Kings

9:8

2 Kings

15:35; 18:17

1 Chronicles

7:24

2 Chronicles

7:21; 8:5; 23:20

Nehemiah

3:25

Psalms

7:17; 9:2; 18:13; 21:7; 46:4; 47:2; 47:3; 50:14; 73:11; 77:10; 78:17; 78:35; 78:56; 82:6; 83:18; 87:5; 89:27; 91:1; 91:9; 92:1; 97:9; 107:11

Isaiah

7:3; 14:14; 36:2

Lamentations

3:35; 3:38

Ezekiel

41:7; 42:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5945 matches the Hebrew עֶלְיוֹן (ʿelyôn),
which occurs 53 times in 53 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 14:18–Lam 3:38)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:18 - [fn]Melchizedek king of Salem (ancient Jerusalem) brought out bread and wine [for them]; he was the priest of [fn]God Most High.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:19 - And Melchizedek blessed Abram and said,

“Blessed (joyful, favored) be Abram by God Most High,

Creator and Possessor of heaven and earth;

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:20 -

And blessed, praised, and glorified be God Most High,

Who has given your enemies into your hand.”

And Abram gave him a tenth of all [the treasure he had taken in battle].

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:22 - But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand and sworn an oath to the LORD God Most High, the Creator and Possessor of heaven and earth,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17 - and in the top basket there were some of all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds [of prey] were eating [these foods] out of the basket on my head.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:16 -

The oracle of him who hears the words of God

And knows the knowledge of the [fn]Most High,

Who sees the vision of the [fn]Almighty,

Falling down, but having his eyes open and uncovered:

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:19 - and that He will set you high above all the nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor: and that you shall be a holy people [set apart and consecrated] to the LORD your God, just as He has spoken.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 -

“Now it shall be, if you diligently listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all of His commandments which I am commanding you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:8 -

“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,

When He separated the sons of man,

He set the boundaries of the peoples

According to the number of the sons of Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 16:5 - Now this was the territory of the sons of Ephraim according to their families: on the east side the border of their inheritance was Ataroth-addar, as far as upper Beth-horon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:14 -

“The LORD thundered from heaven,

And the Most High uttered His voice.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:8 - “This house (temple) will become a heap of ruins; everyone who passes by will be appalled and [fn]sneer and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this house?’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:35 - Only [the altars on] the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places [rather than in the temple]. He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17 -

Then the king of Assyria sent [fn]the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rabshakeh [his highest officials] with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem, and when they went up and arrived, they stood by the aqueduct of the upper pool, which is on the road of the Fuller’s Field.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 7:24 - Beriah’s daughter was Sheerah, who built both Lower and Upper Beth-horon, and also Uzzen-sheerah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:21 - “And as for this house, which was so exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:5 - He also built upper Beth-horon and lower Beth-horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars [to lock the gates];
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:20 - He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the house of the LORD; and they came through the upper gate to the king’s house (palace) and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 27:3 - He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and did extensive building on the wall of Ophel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:30 - This same Hezekiah also stopped up the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and channeled them down to the west side of the City of David. Hezekiah succeeded in everything that he did.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:25 - Palal the son of Uzai made repairs in front of the Angle [in the wall] and the tower projecting from the upper house (palace) of the king, which is by the courtyard of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:17 -

I will give thanks to the LORD according to His righteousness and justice,

And I will sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:2 -

I will rejoice and exult in you;

I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:13 -

The LORD also thundered in the heavens,

And the Most High uttered His voice,

Hailstones and coals of fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 21:7 -

For the king [confidently] trusts in the LORD,

And through the lovingkindness (faithfulness, goodness) of the Most High he will never be shaken.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:4 -

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,

The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:2 -

For the LORD Most High is to be feared [and worshiped with awe-inspired reverence and obedience];

He is a great King over all the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:14 -

“Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving

And pay your vows to the Most High;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:2 -

I will cry to God Most High,

Who accomplishes all things on my behalf [for He completes my purpose in His plan].

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:11 -

They say, “How does God know?

Is there knowledge [of us] with the Most High?”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:10 -

And I said, “This is my grief,

That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:17 -

Yet they still continued to sin against Him

By rebelling against the Most High in the desert.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:35 -

And they remembered that God was their rock,

And the Most High God their Redeemer.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:56 -

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God

And did not keep His testimonies (laws).

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:6 -

I said, “You are [fn]gods;

Indeed, all of you are sons of the Most High.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:18 -

That they may know that You alone, whose name is the LORD,

Are the Most High over all the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:5 -

But of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her,”

And the Most High Himself will establish her.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 89:27 -

“I will also make him My firstborn (preeminent),

The highest of the kings of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:1 -

He who [fn]dwells in the shelter of the Most High

Will remain secure and rest in the shadow of the Almighty [whose power no enemy can withstand].

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:9 -

Because you have made the LORD, [who is] my refuge,

Even the Most High, your dwelling place,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:1 -

A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath day.

It is a good and delightful thing to give thanks to the LORD,

To sing praises to Your name, O Most High,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:9 -

For You are the LORD Most High over all the earth;

You are exalted far above all gods.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:11 -

Because they had rebelled against the precepts of God

And spurned the counsel of the Most High.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:3 -

Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz [king of Judah], you and your son [fn]Shear-jashub, at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the highway to the [fn]Fuller’s Field;

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:14 -

‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;

I will make myself like the Most High.’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:2 - And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh [his military commander] from Lachish [the Judean fortress commanding the road from Egypt] to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem with a large army. And he stood by the canal of the Upper Pool on the highway to the Fuller’s Field.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:2 - Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate by the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:10 - Then Baruch read to all the people the words of Jeremiah from the scroll of the book in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the LORDS house.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:35 -

To deprive a man of justice

In the presence of the Most High,

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:38 -

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High

That both adversity (misfortune) and good (prosperity, happiness) proceed?


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