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# עֶלְיוֹן

Biblical Hebrew

**high** — used 31 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/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5dc_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֶלְיוֹן²: n.m. Highest, Most High [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5dc_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Highest, Most High (prob. = foreg.);— name of God Nu 24:16; Dt 32:8 ψ 18:14 = 2 S 22:14 ψ 9:3; 21:8; 46:5; 50:14; 73:11; 77:11; 78:17; 83:19; 87:5; 91:1, 9; 92:2; 107:11; Is 14:14; La 3:35, 38; with other divine names: אל עליון Gn 14:18, 19, 20, 22 (v. Di) ψ 78:35; יהוה עליון ψ 7:18; 47:3; אלהים עליון ψ 57:3; 78:56. of rulers, either monarchs or angel-princes, בְּנֵי עֶלְיוֹן = אלהים ψ 82:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 30 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (3 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: the Most High (10); of the Most High (9); Most High (8).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 14:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.14/#tree)

אֶעֱלֶ֖ה עַל־בָּ֣מֳתֵי עָ֑ב אֶדַּמֶּ֖ה לְעֶלְיֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* I.will.ascend above \[the\].high.places of.\[the\].cloud\[s\] I.will.make.myself.like (to).the Most.High

*JPS 1917:* I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.'

[Lamentations 3:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.35/#tree)

לְהַטּוֹת֙ מִשְׁפַּט־גָּ֔בֶר נֶ֖גֶד פְּנֵ֥י עֶלְיֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* to turn.aside \[the\].justice of.a.man before the.presence of.the.Most.High

*JPS 1917:* To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b6_5dc_5b0_5d9_5d5_5b9_5df/): 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).