'Eminent' in the Bible
A fool will no longer be called noble, and a scoundrel will not be said [to be] eminent.
Violence has grown into a rod of wickedness.None of them will remain:none of their multitude,none of their wealth,and none of the eminent among them.
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
But what did you [really] go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and one [more eminent, more remarkable, and] far more than a prophet [who foretells the future].
He will be great and eminent and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David;
Greet Rufus, an eminent and choice man in the Lord, also his mother [who has been] a mother to me as well.
For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.
I have become foolish; you yourselves compelled me. Actually I should have been commended by you, for in no respect was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, even though I am a nobody.