מַעַל maʻal

Meaning

properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.

In the King James Version: above, exceeding(-ly), forward, on ([idiom] very) high, over, up(-on, -ward), very.

Derivation: from H5927 (עָלָה);

Where it is used

• Ezekiel 1:22 Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was the likeness of an awesome expanse, gleaming like crystal.
• Ezekiel 1:26 Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high above was a figure like that of a man.
• Ezekiel 1:27 From what seemed to be His waist up, I saw a gleam like amber, with what looked like fire within it all around. And from what seemed to be His waist down, I saw what looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded Him.
• Ezekiel 8:2 Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber.
• Ezekiel 10:19 As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them.
• Ezekiel 11:22 Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.
• Ezekiel 37:8 As I looked on, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them; but there was no breath in them.
• 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.
• Ezekiel 43:15 The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.
• Daniel 12:6 One of them said to the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long until the fulfillment of these wonders?”
• Daniel 12:7 And the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”
• Amos 2:9 Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.
• Haggai 2:15 Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
• Haggai 2:18 Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully: