עִלַּיʻillay
highest (Daniel 3:26; Daniel 3:32; Daniel 5:18; Daniel 5:21; Daniel 4:14)
Pronunciation: il-lah'-ee · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5943
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- Daniel 3:26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came as close as he could to the door of the flaming furnace and shouted: “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out! Come here!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego stepped out of the fire.
- Daniel 4:2 “I want you all to know about the miraculous signs and wonders the Most High God has performed for me.
- Daniel 4:17 For this has been decreed by the messengers; it is commanded by the holy ones, so that everyone may know that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world. He gives them to anyone he chooses— even to the lowliest of people.”
- Daniel 4:24 “‘This is what the dream means, Your Majesty, and what the Most High has declared will happen to my lord the king.
- Daniel 4:25 You will be driven from human society, and you will live in the fields with the wild animals. You will eat grass like a cow, and you will be drenched with the dew of heaven. Seven periods of time will pass while you live this way, until you learn that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world and gives them to anyone he chooses.
- Daniel 4:32 You will be driven from human society. You will live in the fields with the wild animals, and you will eat grass like a cow. Seven periods of time will pass while you live this way, until you learn that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world and gives them to anyone he chooses.’
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).