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  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4605",
  "lemma": "מַעַל",
  "transliteration": "maʻal",
  "definition": "properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.",
  "kjv": "above, exceeding(-ly), forward, on ([idiom] very) high, over, up(-on, -ward), very.",
  "occurrences": 140,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H5927",
      "lemma": "עָלָה",
      "transliteration": "ʻâlâh",
      "meaning": "to ascend, intransitively",
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    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "מַ֫עַל 140 subst., higher part, only in adv. and prep. phrases, above, upward"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 6:16",
      "text": "You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 7:20",
      "text": "The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 22:9",
      "text": "They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 20:4",
      "text": "“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 25:20",
      "text": "The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 25:21",
      "text": "You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 26:14",
      "text": "You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 28:27",
      "text": "You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 30:14",
      "text": "Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 36:19",
      "text": "He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/36?v=19"
    }
  ],
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