Limitless Word
עֶלְיוֹןʻelyôwn/el-yone'/
HebrewH594553 occurrences (KJV)

an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme

KJV renders it: (Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most).

Where it appears

  • Gen 14:18Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.
  • Gen 14:19He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:
  • Gen 14:20and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.
  • Gen 14:22Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
  • Gen 40:17In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”
  • Num 24:16he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty, Falling down, and having his eyes open:
  • Deut 26:19He will make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
  • Deut 28:1It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
  • Deut 32:8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.
  • Josh 16:5This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.
  • 2 Sam 22:14Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.
  • 1 Kgs 9:8Though this house is so high, yet everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss; and they will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land, and to this house?’
  • 2 Kgs 15:35However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense in the high places. He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house.
  • 2 Kgs 18:17The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
  • 1 Chr 7:24His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
  • 2 Chr 7:21This house, which is so high, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall say, ‘Why has Yahweh done this to this land and to this house?’
  • 2 Chr 8:5Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
  • 2 Chr 23:20He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from Yahweh’s house. They came through the upper gate to the king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.
  • 2 Chr 27:3He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house, and he built much on the wall of Ophel.
  • 2 Chr 32:30This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
  • Neh 3:25Palal the son of Uzai made repairs opposite the turning of the wall, and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.
  • Ps 7:17I will give thanks to Yahweh according to his righteousness, and will sing praise to the name of Yahweh Most High.
  • Ps 9:2I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.
  • Ps 18:13Yahweh also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice: hailstones and coals of fire.
  • Ps 21:7For the king trusts in Yahweh. Through the loving kindness of the Most High, he shall not be moved.
  • Ps 46:4There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.
  • Ps 47:2For Yahweh Most High is awesome. He is a great King over all the earth.
  • Ps 50:14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
  • Ps 57:2I cry out to God Most High, to God who accomplishes my requests for me.
  • Ps 73:11They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
  • Ps 77:10Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
  • Ps 78:17Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
  • Ps 78:35They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
  • Ps 78:56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies;
  • Ps 82:6I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.
  • Ps 83:18that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
  • Ps 87:5Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her”; the Most High himself will establish her.
  • Ps 89:27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
  • Ps 91:1He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
  • Ps 91:9Because you have made Yahweh your refuge, and the Most High your dwelling place,
  • Ps 92:1A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High;
  • Ps 97:9For you, Yahweh, are most high above all the earth. You are exalted far above all gods.
  • Ps 107:11because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
  • Isa 7:3Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.
  • Isa 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”
  • Isa 36:2The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.
  • Jer 20:2Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.
  • Jer 36:10Then Baruch read the words of Jeremiah from the book in Yahweh’s house, in the room of Gemariah the son of Shaphan, the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house, in the ears of all the people.
  • Lam 3:35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
  • Lam 3:38Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
  • Ezek 9:2Behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lies toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand. One man in the middle of them was clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. They went in, and stood beside the bronze altar.
  • Ezek 41:7The side rooms were wider on the higher levels, because the walls were narrower at the higher levels. Therefore the width of the house increased upward; and so one went up from the lowest level to the highest through the middle level.
  • Ezek 42:5Now the upper rooms were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middle, in the building.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.