Midvash

עֶלְיוֹןʻelyôwn

עֶלְיוֺן: 1.

Pronunciation: el-yone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5945

Meanings

high (Deuteronomy 26:19; Deuteronomy 28:1; 1 Kings 9:8)

2. upper (Joshua 16:5; 1 Chronicles 7:24; 2 Chronicles 8:5)

עֶלְיוֺן: Highest, Most High

1. name of God (Numbers 24:16; Deuteronomy 32:8; Psalms 18:14)

2. of rulers, either monarchs or angel-princes (Psalms 82:6)

: id. (Daniel 7:18; Daniel 7:22; Daniel 7:25; Daniel 7:27)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 53 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 14:18 And Melchizedek, the king of Salem and a priest of God Most High, brought Abram some bread and wine.
  • Genesis 14:19 Melchizedek blessed Abram with this blessing: “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth.
  • Genesis 14:20 And blessed be God Most High, who has defeated your enemies for you.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the goods he had recovered.
  • Genesis 14:22 Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I solemnly swear to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
  • Genesis 40:17 The top basket contained all kinds of pastries for Pharaoh, but the birds came and ate them from the basket on my head.”
  • Numbers 24:16 the message 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:
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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).