# H5945 עֶלְיוֹן

עֶלְיוֹן (ʻelyôwn), Strong’s H5945: an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme KJV: (Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most).. Occurs 53 times.

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*ʻelyôwn* — an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme

KJV: (Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most).

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

Occurs 53 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- 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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 14:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=18) — Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.
- [Genesis 14:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=19) — He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.
- [Genesis 14:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=20) — Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.
- [Genesis 14:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=22) — Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
- [Genesis 40:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=17) — In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my…
- [Numbers 24:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/24?v=16) — he says, who hears the words of God, knows the knowledge of the Most High, and who sees the vision of the Almighty…
- [Deuteronomy 26:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/26?v=19) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 28:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/28?v=1) — It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the LORD your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments…
- [Deuteronomy 32:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/32?v=8) — When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of…
- [Joshua 16:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/16?v=5) — This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward…