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# עֶלְיוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5945

**high** — used 22 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

high [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5945/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶלְיוֹן: adj. high [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5945/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. high;—ms. ע׳ Dt 26:19; 28:1; 1 K 9:8 (? reading הַבַּיִת הַזֶּה הָע׳ as 𝔊L Benz) = 2 Ch 7:21, of י׳ ψ 97:9. upper Bethhoron, ע׳ Jos 16:5 העליון 1 Ch 7:24; 2 Ch 8:5, the upper (opp. lower), of house Ne 3:25; cf. 2 K 15:35; 2 Ch 23:20 + 5 times, + Gn 40:17 (uppermost basket); fs. הָעֶלְיוֹנָה the upper pool 2 K 18:17 = Is 36:2; Is 7:3; the highest side-chamber (צֵלָע) Ez 41:7; fpl. הָעֶלְיוֹנֹת 42:5 the upper chambers (לְשָׁכוֹת). of Davidic king exalted above monarchs ψ 89:28 (cf. Dt 28:1, supr.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: upper (16); most high (5); \[story\] (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 89:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.28/#tree)

אַף־אָ֭נִי בְּכ֣וֹר אֶתְּנֵ֑הוּ עֶ֝לְי֗וֹן לְמַלְכֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* also I firstborn I will.make.him most.high to.\[the\] kings of.\[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* I also will appoint him first-born, the highest of the kings of the earth.

[2 Chronicles 27:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.27.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.27.3/#tree)

ה֗וּא בָּנָ֛ה אֶת־שַׁ֥עַר בֵּית־יְהוָ֖ה הָעֶלְי֑וֹן וּבְחוֹמַ֥ת הָעֹ֛פֶל בָּנָ֖ה לָרֹֽב׃

*Word for word:* he he.built (et) the.gate of.the.house of.Yahweh (the) upper and on the.wall of.(the) Ophel he.built to abundance

*JPS 1917:* He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5945/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).