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Strong's H5945 עֶלְיוֹן (elyon)

Elyon means “elevation” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Strong's Number H5945
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 53
Books 15

Strong's H5945 Quick Answer

Strong's H5945 עֶליוֹן (elyown) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. elyown (el-yone') adj. 1. an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.) 2. as title, the Supreme It has 53 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include most, high, and highest. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
elyown (el-yone') adj. 1. an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.) 2. as title, the Supreme
Usage
53 linked usages
Books
15 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
most, high, and highest

Meaning and Definition

elyown (el-yone') adj. 1. an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.) 2. as title, the Supreme [from H5927] KJV: (Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most). Root(s): H5927

Original Word
עֶליוֹן
Transliteration
elyown
Derivation
Root: עלה First root strongs: 5927
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5945. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H5945 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render elyown, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

most Genesis 14:18 27× high Deuteronomy 26:19 11× Highest Psalms 18:13

How Strong's H5945 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 53 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H5945 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H5945 in the Old Testament

53 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 14:18 KJV

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

Genesis 14:19 KJV

And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:

Genesis 14:20 KJV

And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

Usage Excerpts

First 53 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5945.

Genesis 14:18 Old Testament, KJV
And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
Genesis 14:19 Old Testament, KJV
And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
Genesis 14:20 Old Testament, KJV
And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
Genesis 14:22 Old Testament, KJV
And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,
Genesis 40:17 Old Testament, KJV
And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.
Numbers 24:16 Old Testament, KJV
He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
Deuteronomy 26:19 Old Testament, KJV
And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
Deuteronomy 28:1 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
Deuteronomy 32:8 Old Testament, KJV
When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Joshua 16:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
2 Samuel 22:14 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.
1 Kings 9:8 Old Testament, KJV
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
2 Kings 15:35 Old Testament, KJV
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 18:17 Old Testament, KJV
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field.
1 Chronicles 7:24 Old Testament, KJV
(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Bethhoron the nether, and the upper, and Uzzensherah.)
2 Chronicles 7:21 Old Testament, KJV
And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and unto this house?
2 Chronicles 8:5 Old Testament, KJV
Also he built Bethhoron the upper, and Bethhoron the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
2 Chronicles 23:20 Old Testament, KJV
And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the LORD: and they came through the high gate into the king's house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.
2 Chronicles 27:3 Old Testament, KJV
He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
2 Chronicles 32:30 Old Testament, KJV
This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
Nehemiah 3:25 Old Testament, KJV
Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.
Psalms 7:17 Old Testament, KJV
I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.
Psalms 9:2 Old Testament, KJV
I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
Psalms 18:13 Old Testament, KJV
The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Psalms 21:7 Old Testament, KJV
For the king trusteth in the LORD, and through the mercy of the most High he shall not be moved.
Psalms 46:4 Old Testament, KJV
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
Psalms 47:2 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.
Psalms 50:14 Old Testament, KJV
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
Psalms 57:2 Old Testament, KJV
I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
Psalms 73:11 Old Testament, KJV
And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
Psalms 77:10 Old Testament, KJV
And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
Psalms 78:17 Old Testament, KJV
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
Psalms 78:35 Old Testament, KJV
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Psalms 78:56 Old Testament, KJV
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Psalms 82:6 Old Testament, KJV
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Psalms 83:18 Old Testament, KJV
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
Psalms 87:5 Old Testament, KJV
And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
Psalms 89:27 Old Testament, KJV
Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth.
Psalms 91:1 Old Testament, KJV
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalms 91:9 Old Testament, KJV
Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
Psalms 92:1 Old Testament, KJV
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
Psalms 97:9 Old Testament, KJV
For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
Psalms 107:11 Old Testament, KJV
Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
Isaiah 7:3 Old Testament, KJV
Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
Isaiah 14:14 Old Testament, KJV
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isaiah 36:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.
Jeremiah 20:2 Old Testament, KJV
Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 36:10 Old Testament, KJV
Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's house, in the ears of all the people.
Lamentations 3:35 Old Testament, KJV
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lamentations 3:38 Old Testament, KJV
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Ezekiel 9:2 Old Testament, KJV
And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
Ezekiel 41:7 Old Testament, KJV
And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
Ezekiel 42:5 Old Testament, KJV
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5945, grouped by book.

Genesis 5 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 5 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 22 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H5945 FAQ

What does elyon (עֶלְיוֹן) mean?

Elyon (Strong's H5945) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "elevation". elyown (el-yone') adj. 1. an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.) 2. as title, the Supreme

How many times is elyon (עֶלְיוֹן) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 53 linked usages for Strong's H5945 across 15 books.

Where can I study elyon (עֶלְיוֹן) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5945 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate elyon (עֶלְיוֹן)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as most, high, and highest. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.