{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5945",
  "lemma": "עֶלְיוֹן",
  "transliteration": "ʻelyôwn",
  "definition": "an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme",
  "kjv": "(Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most).",
  "occurrences": 53,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H5927",
      "lemma": "עָלָה",
      "transliteration": "ʻâlâh",
      "meaning": "to ascend, intransitively",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H5927"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "עֶלְיוֹן 22 adj.",
    "1. high",
    "2. upper Bethhoron, the upper (opp. lower) of house",
    "עֶלְיוֹן n.m",
    "עֶלְיוֹן n.m. Highest, Most High",
    "1. name of God",
    "2. of rulers, either monarchs or angel-princes"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:18",
      "text": "Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:19",
      "text": "He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:20",
      "text": "Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 14:22",
      "text": "Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 40:17",
      "text": "In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 24:16",
      "text": "he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/24?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 26:19",
      "text": "He 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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/26?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 28:1",
      "text": "It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 32:8",
      "text": "When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 16:5",
      "text": "This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/16?v=5"
    }
  ],
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