עֶלְיוֹן ʻelyôwn

Hebrew · Strong's H5945 · pronounced el-yone' · used 53 times in 53 verses

Meaning

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);

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Where it is used

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,
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.”
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:
Deuteronomy 26:19 that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.
Deuteronomy 28:1 “Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
Deuteronomy 32:8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
Joshua 16:5 This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar in the east to Upper Beth-horon
2 Samuel 22:14 The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
1 Kings 9:8 And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
2 Kings 15:35 Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD.
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.
1 Chronicles 7:24 His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, as well as Uzzen-sheerah.
2 Chronicles 7:21 And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’
2 Chronicles 8:5 He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
2 Chronicles 23:20 And he took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate. They seated King Joash on the royal throne,
2 Chronicles 27:3 Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he worked extensively on the wall at the hill of Ophel.
2 Chronicles 32:30 It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Spring of Gihon and channeled it down to the west side of the City of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.
Nehemiah 3:25 and Palal son of Uzai made repairs opposite the angle and the tower that juts out from the upper palace of the king near the courtyard of the guard. Next to him, Pedaiah son of Parosh
Psalms 7:17 I will thank the LORD for His righteousness and sing praise to the name of the LORD Most High.
Psalms 9:2 I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.
Psalms 18:13 The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded—hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalms 21:7 For the king trusts in the LORD; through the loving devotion of the Most High, he will not be shaken.
Psalms 46:4 There is a river whose streams delight the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
Psalms 47:2 How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!
Psalms 50:14 Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
Psalms 57:2 I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills His purpose for me.
Psalms 73:11 The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
Psalms 77:10 So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
Psalms 78:17 But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
Psalms 78:35 And they remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.
Psalms 78:56 But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
Psalms 82:6 I have said, ‘You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.’
Psalms 83:18 May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
Psalms 87:5 And it will be said of Zion: “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High Himself will establish her.”
Psalms 89:27 I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
Psalms 91:1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalms 91:9 Because you have made the LORD your dwelling—my refuge, the Most High—
Psalms 92:1 A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,
Psalms 97:9 For You, O LORD, are Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.
Psalms 107:11 because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.
Isaiah 7:3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field,
Isaiah 14:14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
Isaiah 36:2 And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
Jeremiah 20:2 he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 36:10 From the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, which was in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the house of the LORD, Baruch read from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the hearing of all the people.
Lamentations 3:35 to deny a man justice before the Most High,
Lamentations 3:38 Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Ezekiel 9:2 And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate, which faces north, each with a weapon of slaughter in his hand. With them was another man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. And they came in and stood beside the bronze altar.
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 42:5 Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space from the chambers on the lower and middle floors of the building.