122 occurrences in 12 translations

'Height' in the Bible

And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

Verse ConceptsBreadthHeightLengthBroadnessDimensions Of Other Thingsmathstructuremeasurement

And Joshua doth as Moses hath said to him, to fight with Amalek, and Moses, Aaron, and Hur, have gone up to the top of the height;

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsAaron, PrivilegesApprentices

And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

Verse ConceptsBreadthWeights And Measures, LinearAcacia WoodChestsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

Verse ConceptsBreadthBuildingHeightWoodSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureSacrifice On The Bronze AltarSetting Up The Bronze Altar

The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

Verse ConceptsLinen ItemsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.

Verse ConceptsSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureOne Material Thing

And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of Temple Furniture

And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:

Verse ConceptsAcacia WoodDimensions Of Temple Furniture

And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.

Verse ConceptsBreadthAltar Of IncenseSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureOne Material Thing

And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.

Verse ConceptsWoodAcacia WoodSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureSetting Up The Bronze Altar

And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.

Verse ConceptsembroideryColors, BlueGates Of The TempleRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothBlue Purple And Scarlet

And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: peradventure Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height.

Verse ConceptsHeightKnowing God, Nature OfSpeaking The Word God Gives

and Joshua maketh for him knives of flint, and circumciseth the sons of Israel at the height of the foreskins.

Verse ConceptsCommemoration

the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

And Jerubbaal (he is Gideon) riseth early, and all the people who are with him, and they encamp by the well of Harod, and the camp of Midian hath been on the south of him, on the height of Moreh, in the valley.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Rose Earlygideon

And the men of Kirjath-Jearim come and bring up the ark of Jehovah, and bring it in unto the house of Abinadab, in the height, and Eleazar his son they have sanctified to keep the ark of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsHoliness, As Set Apart For GodArk Of The Covenant, EventsThe Ark Moved Around

and they come in thither to the height, and lo, a band of prophets -- to meet him, and prosper over him doth the Spirit of God, and he prophesieth in their midst.

Verse Conceptsequipping, spiritualThe Spirit Of GodPromises Of The Holy SpiritThe Holy Spirit, Source Of WisdomSchoolgroups

And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearGiantsChampions

And Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah under the tamarisk upon the height, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing by him.

Verse ConceptsTamarisk

And the Ziphites go up unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, 'Is not David hiding himself with us in fortresses, in the forest, in the height of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desolate place?

Verse ConceptsSouthTelling Of Movements

And the Ziphites come in unto Saul, at Gibeah, saying, 'Is not David hiding himself in the height of Hachilah, on the front of the desert?'

Verse ConceptsHiding From PeopleTelling Of Movements

And Saul encampeth in the height of Hachilah, which is on the front of the desert, by the way, and David is abiding in the wilderness, and he seeth that Saul hath come after him in to the wilderness;

And Joab and Abishai pursue after Abner, and the sun hath gone in, and they have come in unto the height of Ammah, which is on the front of Giah, the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

And the sons of Benjamin gather themselves together after Abner, and become one troop, and stand on the top of a certain height,

And they cause the ark of God to ride on a new cart, and lift it up from the house of Abinadab, which is in the height, and Uzzah and Ahio sons of Abinadab are leading the new cart;

Verse ConceptsCartsUnused

and they lift it up from the house of Abinadab, which is in the height, with the ark of God, and Ahio is going before the ark,

let there be given to us seven men of his sons, and we have hanged them before Jehovah, in the height of Saul, the chosen of Jehovah.' And the king saith, 'I do give;'

Verse ConceptsSeven ChildrenPeople Hung To Death

Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);

Verse ConceptsNamed Wives

And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

Verse ConceptsBreadthBuildingHeightDimensions Of Buildingsfreemasonry

And he buildeth the couch against all the house, five cubits is its height, and it taketh hold of the house by cedar-wood.

Verse ConceptsHeightDecksDimensions Of ChambersCedar Woodstructure

And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.

Verse ConceptsCubesDimensions Of ChambersOverlaid With WoodCedar Wood

And he maketh within the oracle two cherubs, of the oil-tree, ten cubits is their height;

Verse ConceptsWoodDimensions Of Temple FurnitureTwo AngelsCherubim Depicted

The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureSame Sizes

He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

Verse ConceptsBeamsForestsBreadthBuildingFour SupportsRoyal HousesDimensions Of BuildingsCedar Wood

And he formeth the two pillars of brass; eighteen cubits is the height of the one pillar, and a cord of twelve cubits doth compass the second pillar.

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveDimensions Of PillarsHollownessTwo Parts Of ConstructionsHollowBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of PillarsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

Verse ConceptsSculptureWeights And Measures, DistancesDimensions Of Temple FurnitureCircles

And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureBronze Items For The Tabernacle

And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.

Verse ConceptsFour SupportsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

And in the top of the base is the half of a cubit in the height all round about; and on the top of the base its spokes and its borders are of the same.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

And they build -- also they -- for themselves high places, and standing-pillars, and shrines, on every high height, and under every green tree;

Verse ConceptsHillsSacred PlacesPolytheismObelisksServing Asherah

and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,

Verse ConceptsHillsShrinesStonesObelisksServing AsherahWorship At Trees

By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of ConfidenceClimbingChariotsCedarWorldly Ambition ExamplesFalse Confidence, Examples OfFelling Trees

The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of PillarsPomegranates

He also killed a soldier from Egypt of enormous height five cubits tall. The Egyptian carried a spear comparable in size to a weaver's beam, but Benaiah attacked him with a staff, snatched the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.

Verse ConceptsBeamsCraftsmenSpearsWeights And Measures, LinearGiants

And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

Verse ConceptsPorchesDimensions Of Chambers

Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

Verse ConceptsBreadthSacrifice On The Bronze AltarSetting Up The Bronze Altar

Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

for Solomon hath made a scaffold of brass, and putteth it in the midst of the court, five cubits its length, and five cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height, and he standeth upon it, and kneeleth on his knees over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth forth his hands towards the heavens --

Verse ConceptsKneelingPrayer, Practicalities OfBronze Items For The Tabernacle

At the height of his power, after he had consolidated his rule, Rehoboam abandoned the LORD's Law, along with all of Israel with him.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentForsaking GodForsaking God's Things

Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

Verse ConceptsCityBuilding Jerusalem's WallNamed Gatesreinforcement

In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

Verse ConceptsFoundationsBreadthProclamationsThe Second TempleDimensions Of BuildingsThe First Temple

Let the Temple be rebuilt where they offered sacrifices. Let the foundations thereof be laid with a height of 60 cubits and a width of 60 cubits, constructed with three layers of foundation stone interlaced with a row of new timber, the expenses for which are to be paid from the king's treasury.

Verse ConceptsThree Parts Of Constructions

And Zeresh his wife saith to him, and all his friends, 'Let them prepare a tree, in height fifty cubits, and in the morning speak to the king, and they hang Mordecai on it, and go thou in with the king unto the banquet rejoicing;' and the thing is good before Haman, and he prepareth the tree.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsBad Wives ExamplesTemptressesDimensions Of Other ThingsPeople Hung To DeathNamed Wives

And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, saith before the king, 'Also lo, the tree that Haman made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, is standing in the house of Haman, in height fifty cubits;' and the king saith, 'Hang him upon it.'

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsAbasement, Examples OfDimensions Of Other Things

Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds,

Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural Use

At the height of his success distress will come to him;the full weight of misery will crush him.

Verse ConceptsDistressFamine ComingFamine Will Come

Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Verse ConceptsAstronomyGod On HighThings On High

They consult only to throw him down from his high position [to dishonor him];They delight in lies.They bless with [the words of] their mouths,But inwardly they curse. Selah.

Verse ConceptsFlatteryDeceitful HeartsDelighting, Wrong Kinds OfHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSpeech, Negative Aspects OfCharacter Of WickedDeceitful TonguesPsalm InterjectionsThose Who Are LiarsUngodly CursingExcellenceSmiling

And your righteousness, O God, [is] to [the] height [of heaven]. You who have done great things, O God, who [is] like you?

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfSkyWho Is Like God?

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;

Verse ConceptsSanctuaryAcrophobiaGod Seeing All The EarthGod Acts From Heaven

For, as the height of the heavens is above the earth, His kindness hath been mighty over those fearing Him.

Verse ConceptsHeaven, Nature OfFear Of God, Results OfGod On HighMercyGod's Love For UsThe Earthdistancesteadfastgraciousness

The heaven for height, and the earth for depth, and the heart of kings is unsearchable.

Verse ConceptsNature Of KingsThings On High

Whoever digs a pit [for another man’s feet] will fall into it,And he who rolls a stone [up a hill to do mischief], it will come back on him.

Verse ConceptsPitsRetributionDigging PitsRollingPit Used As TrapsKarma

Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

Verse ConceptsSeeking SignsSigns From GodSeeking A SignTrusting God In Difficult Times

And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes.

Verse ConceptsCondemned HeartsExile, in assyriaHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPride, Results OfSuperiorityBusiness EthicsAssyria, Prophecies OfHaughtinessThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaHumbling The ProudEnd Of ActionsGod Opposes The Proud

Behold, the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies will lop off its boughs with terrifying power; the tallest in height will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

Verse ConceptsCutting Off BranchesPutting Things Down

What are you doing here? Who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here, carving your tomb on the height and cutting a crypt for yourself out of rock?

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheHeightToolsWorldly Ambition Examples

For he has made drunk the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low to the ground casting it down to the dust,

Verse ConceptsHumiliationHumilityPride, Results OfHumbling The ProudDestruction Of CitiesPutting Things Down

One thousand because of the rebuke of one, Because of the rebuke of five ye flee, Till ye have been surely left as a pole On the top of the mountain, And as an ensign on the height.

Verse ConceptsBanners, Literal UsePursuing PeopleFaint HeartednessBeaconsFive PeopleA Thousand PeopleFlags

For thus said Jehovah unto me: 'As growl doth the lion and the young lion over his prey, Called against whom is a multitude of shepherds, From their voice he is not affrighted, And from their noise he is not humbled; So come down doth Jehovah of Hosts To war on mount Zion, and on her height.

Verse ConceptsNoiseShepherds, As Kings And LeadersStock Keeping

By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.

Verse ConceptsChariotsCedarFelling TreesTrusting In Chariots

Like a horse or a crane, so I chirp; I moan like dove. My eyes are weak toward the height. Lord, I have oppression; lend me support!

Verse ConceptsdovesdiscouragementPrayer In DiscouragementSwallowsCauses of failure in

Look! You fast to quarrel and strife, and to strike with a {wicked fist}. You shall not fast as [you do] {today}, to {make your voice heard} on the height.

Verse ConceptsArguingethics, incentives towardsQuarrelsHow To FastPointless FastingFighting One AnotherFastingFasting And Prayer

For from of old thou hast broken thy yoke, Drawn away thy bands, and sayest, 'I do not serve,' For, on every high height, and under every green tree, Thou art wandering -- a harlot.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryServanthood, And Worship Of GodShrinesYokesNot Serving GodSacrificing On The High PlacesWorship At TreesBreaking Chains

“Even the stork in the skyKnows her seasons [of migration],And the turtledove, the swallow and the craneObserve the time of their return.But My people do not knowThe law of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsdovesSkyThe Right TimeBirds, Features OfBirds, Types Of BirdsInstinctSwallowsAutumnKnowingGod's TimingGods Timing

“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts,“Zion will be plowed like a field,And Jerusalem will become [heaps of] ruins,And the mountain of the house [of the Lord—Mount Moriah, on which stands the temple, shall become covered not with buildings, but] like a densely wooded height.”’

Verse ConceptsForestsProphecy, Methods Of OtZion, As A SymbolArchaeologyProphesyingDestruction Of JerusalemMetaphorical PloughingNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheGarden, NaturalHorticultureWater IrrigationJoy, And Human ExperienceWineHerdsMetaphorical WateringPeople Providing

And gone out again hath the measuring line Over-against it, unto the height of Gareb, And it hath compassed to Goah.

Verse ConceptsMeasuring Rod

We have heard of the arrogance of Moab, Exceeding proud! His haughtiness, and his arrogance, And his pride, and the height of his heart,

Verse ConceptsProud HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPride, Examples OfHaughtinessProud Peoplearrogance

Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

Verse ConceptsNestsProud HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedHumiliationEaglesPride, Results OfRocksSelf DeceptionPride, Results InBirds, Types Of BirdsDeceiving Oneself

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the LORD.

Verse ConceptsBabylonFortressesSkyThose Who DestroyGoing Up To HeavenSky, Figurative UseHer Strength

And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

Verse ConceptsFingersWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of PillarsBreadthHollownessHollow

And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.

Verse ConceptsNetsDimensions Of PillarsTop Of Things

and say: This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the women who sew magic bands on the wrist of every hand and who make veils for the heads of people of every height in order to ensnare lives. Will you ensnare the lives of My people but preserve your own?

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofSorcery And MagicTrapVeilsMagiciansDressSewingTemptressesTall PeopleAvoid Sorcerymagic

It sprouted and became a spreading vine,low in height with its branches turned toward him,yet its roots stayed under it.So it became a vine,produced branches, and sent out shoots.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingSprouting PlantsSmall ThingsSproutingThose Subjected To People

In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.

Verse ConceptsBearing Fruit

And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

Verse ConceptsHeightSceptreThings On High

For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

Verse ConceptsSacrifice, Nt Fulfilment OfHow To Worship God

Think of Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon,with beautiful branches and shady foliageand of lofty height.Its top was among the clouds.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfCedarPride, Examples OfTreesThings On High

Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingThings On High

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

Verse ConceptsHeightSelf ExaltationThings On High

To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

Verse ConceptsPitsSon Of ManGoing Down To The PitHow Death Is InevitableThings On HighWhy It Happened

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

I will feed them with good pasture; and upon the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual FoodMessianic BanquetFeeding AnimalsThe Mountains Of Israel

Bible Theasaurus

Degree (37 instances)
Elevation (7 instances)
Eminence (1 instance)
Loftiness (11 instances)
Meridian (1 instance)
Stature (32 instances)
Summit (21 instances)
Superlative (1 instance)
Tallness (3 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּמה 
Bamah 
Usage: 103

גּבהּ 
Gabahh 
exalt , ... up , haughty , higher , high , above , height , proud , upward
Usage: 34

גּבהּ 
Gobahh 
Usage: 17

גּבוהּ גּבהּ 
Gaboahh 
Usage: 37

מרום 
Marowm 
Usage: 54

קומה 
Qowmah 
Usage: 45

רם רוּם 
Ruwm 
Usage: 7

רוּם 
Ruwm (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

ὕψος 
Hupsos 
on high , height , high , be exalted
Usage: 5

ὕψωμα 
Hupsoma 
Usage: 2

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