# H4605 מַעַל

מַעַל (maʻal), Strong’s H4605: 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…

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*maʻal* — 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.

Derived from [עָלָה ʻâlâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H5927) (to ascend, intransitively)

Occurs 140 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַ֫עַל 140 subst., higher part, only in adv. and prep. phrases, above, upward

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 6:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=16) — 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…
- [Genesis 7:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=20) — The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
- [Genesis 22:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/22?v=9) — They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound…
- [Exodus 20:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=4) — “You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the…
- [Exodus 25:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=20) — The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one…
- [Exodus 25:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=21) — 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.
- [Exodus 26:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=14) — You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.
- [Exodus 28:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=27) — You shall make two rings of gold, and shall put them on the two shoulder straps of the ephod underneath, in its…
- [Exodus 30:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/30?v=14) — Everyone who passes over to those who are counted, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to the…
- [Exodus 36:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/36?v=19) — He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.