331 occurrences

'High' in the Bible

This is how you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

Verse ConceptsBreadthHeightLengthBroadnessDimensions Of Other Thingsmathstructuremeasurement

Then the waters surged even higher on the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole sky were covered.

Verse ConceptsCovering The Earth

But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand in an oath to Yahweh, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,

Verse ConceptsPromises, HumanGod On HighAll Things Belong To God

“They are to make an ark of acacia wood, 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.

Verse ConceptsBreadthWeights And Measures, LinearAcacia WoodChestsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

“You are to construct a table of acacia wood, 36 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 27 inches high.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

“You are to construct the altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, 7½ feet long, and 7½ feet wide; it must be 4½ feet high.

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

It must be square, 18 inches long and 18 inches wide; it must be 36 inches high. Its horns must be of one piece.

Verse ConceptsSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureOne Material Thing

Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of Temple Furniture

He constructed the table of acacia wood, 36 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 27 inches high.

Verse ConceptsAcacia WoodDimensions Of Temple Furniture

He made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, 18 inches long and 18 inches wide; it was 36 inches high. Its horns were of one piece.

Verse ConceptsBreadthAltar Of IncenseSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureOne Material Thing

Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, 7½ feet long and 7½ feet wide, and was 4½ feet high.

Verse ConceptsWoodAcacia WoodSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureSetting Up The Bronze Altar

The screen for the gate of the courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It was 30 feet long, and like the hangings of the courtyard, 7½ feet high.

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

The priest who is anointed and ordained to serve as high priest in place of his father will make atonement. He will put on the linen garments, the holy garments,

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtOrdinationAnointed Old Testament LeadersConsecrationPriests Garments

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesDestruction Of Satan's WorksInadequate BurialsNo IncenseFate Of IdolatersGod Hating People

The priest will set its value, whether high or low; the price will be set as the priest makes the assessment for you.

Verse ConceptsValue

“When a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, the priest will assess its value, whether high or low. The price will stand just as the priest assesses it.

Verse ConceptsLiving In Houses

the oracle of one who hears the sayings of Godand has knowledge from the Most High,who sees a vision from the Almighty,who falls into a trance with his eyes uncovered:

Verse ConceptsecstasyGod On HighHearing God's WordReceiving SightVisions From God

you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesGoldsmithsDestruction Of Satan's Works

The assembly is to protect the one who kills someone from the hand of the avenger of blood. Then the assembly will return him to the city of refuge he fled to, and he must live there until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

Verse ConceptsRankManslaughterAnointing PriestsDeath Of Office Holders

for the one who killed a person was supposed to live in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest. Only after the death of the high priest may the one who has killed a person return to the land he possesses.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of Office HoldersPermission To Return Home

Neither should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to his city of refuge, allowing him to return and live in the land before the death of the high priest.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of Office HoldersNot Redeemed

All these were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a large number of rural villages.

Verse ConceptsCityGatesVillagesWallsCitiesOutside The CityWalled TownsUnguarded

Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenHigh PlacesHillsDestruction Of Satan's WorksWorship At Trees

They will besiege you within all your gates until your high and fortified walls, that you trust in, come down throughout your land. They will besiege you within all your gates throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.

Verse ConceptsFortressesFortificationsCityWallsWalled TownsNations Attacking Israel

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritanceand divided the human race,He set the boundaries of the peoplesaccording to the number of the people of Israel.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In The NationsAdam, DescendantsBoundariesMonogamySeparationThe Most HighLanguages SeparatedAccording To PeopleGod Saves From Sin And DeathGod Sets BoundariesRaceborders

He is to stay in that city until he stands trial before the assembly and until the death of the high priest serving at that time. Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to his own city from which he fled.”

Verse ConceptsDeath Of Office HoldersPermission To Return Home

The women answered, “Yes, he is ahead of you. Hurry, he just now came to the city, because there’s a sacrifice for the people at the high place today.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesHurrying Others On

If you go quickly, you can catch up with him before he goes to the high place to eat. The people won’t eat until he comes because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests can eat. Go up immediately—you can find him now.”

Verse ConceptsPeople EatingPeople Who Blessed Others

So they went up toward the city.Saul and his attendant were entering the city when they saw Samuel coming toward them on his way to the high place.

“I am the seer,” Samuel answered. “Go up ahead of me to the high place and eat with me today. When I send you off in the morning, I’ll tell you everything that’s in your heart.

Verse ConceptsMorningThis Is Me

Afterward, they went down from the high place to the city, and Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.

Verse ConceptsHousetopsRooftop

“After that you will come to the Hill of God where there are Philistine garrisons. When you arrive at the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place prophesying. They will be preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres.

Verse ConceptsFlutesHigh PlacesLyreMusical Instruments, types ofProphecy, Methods Of OtShrinesTambourinesHarpsLyresSchooldrums

Then Saul finished prophesying and went to the high place.

Verse ConceptsLast Words

Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. At that time Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under the tamarisk tree at the high place. His spear was in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.

Verse ConceptsTamarisk

These are the last words of David:The declaration of David son of Jesse,the declaration of the man raised on high,the one anointed by the God of Jacob,the favorite singer of Israel:

Verse ConceptsDavid, Spiritual Significance OfMusiciansLast WordsComposersAnointed By Godheroes

However, the people were sacrificing on the high places, because until that time a temple for the Lord’s name had not been built.

Verse ConceptsSacrificing On The High Places

Solomon loved the Lord by walking in the statutes of his father David, but he also sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered AmissThose Loving GodSacrificing On The High Places

The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there because it was the most famous high place. He offered 1,000 burnt offerings on that altar.

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanOfferingsPilgrimageSacrifice, In OtA Thousand AnimalsSacrifice On The Bronze Altar

The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

Verse ConceptsBreadthBuildingHeightDimensions Of Buildingsfreemasonry

He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams; each story was 7½ feet high.

Verse ConceptsHeightDecksDimensions Of ChambersCedar Woodstructure

The interior of the sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high; he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the cedar altar.

Verse ConceptsCubesDimensions Of ChambersOverlaid With WoodCedar Wood

In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim 15 feet high out of olive wood.

Verse ConceptsWoodDimensions Of Temple FurnitureTwo AngelsCherubim Depicted

He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. It was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on top of the pillars.

Verse ConceptsBeamsForestsBreadthBuildingFour SupportsRoyal HousesDimensions Of BuildingsCedar Wood

And the capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, six feet high.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Pillars

He made the cast metal reservoir, 15 feet from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was 7½ feet high and 45 feet in circumference.

Verse ConceptsSculptureWeights And Measures, DistancesDimensions Of Temple FurnitureCircles

Then he made 10 bronze water carts. Each water cart was six feet long, six feet wide, and 4½ feet high.

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureBronze Items For The Tabernacle

At the top of the cart was a band nine inches high encircling it; also, at the top of the cart, its braces and its frames were one piece with it.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab, and for Milcom, the detestable idol of the Ammonites, on the hill across from Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsBuild, LiterallyHigh Places

Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and set up priests from every class of people who were not Levites.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesPriests, Institution In Ot Times

Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah. He offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.

Verse ConceptsNew Year, TheMonth 8the anniversary Feasts

The man of God cried out against the altar by a revelation from the Lord: “Altar, altar, this is what the Lord says, ‘A son will be born to the house of David, named Josiah, and he will sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who are burning incense on you. Human bones will be burned on you.’”

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsSanctity Of LifeBirths ForetoldDuplicating WordsBonesBurning Idolatrous ThingsMan Of God

for the word that he cried out by a revelation from the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines of the high places in the cities of Samaria is certain to happen.”

Verse ConceptsShrinesMan's Words Fulfilled

After all this Jeroboam did not repent of his evil way but again set up priests for the high places from every class of people. He ordained whoever so desired it, and they became priests of the high places.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesSuperstitionConsecration

They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

Verse ConceptsHillsSacred PlacesPolytheismObelisksServing Asherah

The high places were not taken away; but Asa’s heart was completely devoted to the Lord his entire life.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodHeart, And Holy SpiritHigh PlacesReformationWhole Heartedness

He walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them but did what was right in the Lord’s sight. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesGood Kings Examples OfIncense Offered AmissPeople Who Did RightSacrificing On The High Places

Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsShrinesIncense Offered Amiss

Whenever they saw there was a large amount of money in the chest, the king’s secretary and the high priest would go to the Lord’s temple and count the money found there and tie it up in bags.

Verse ConceptsScribesCounting MoneyMoney For The Temple

Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered Amiss

Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered Amiss

Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.Jotham built the Upper Gate of the Lord’s temple.

Verse ConceptsSolomon's TempleGateways Of The TempleIncense Offered Amiss

He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Verse ConceptsSacrifice, In OtShrinesIncense Offered AmissSacrificing On The High PlacesWorship At Trees

The Israelites secretly did what was not right against the Lord their God. They built high places in all their towns from watchtower to fortified city.

Verse ConceptsSecrecySecret SinsConcealment, Of SinActing In Secret

They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

Verse ConceptsHillsShrinesStonesObelisksServing AsherahWorship At Trees

They burned incense on all the high places just like those nations that the Lord had driven out before them. They did evil things, provoking the Lord.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesGod's Intolerance Of EvilProvoking GodIncense Offered AmissSacrificing On The High Places

But the people of each nation were still making their own gods in the cities where they lived and putting them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made.

Verse ConceptsSacrificing On The High Placesgroups

They feared the Lord, but they also appointed from their number priests to serve them in the shrines of the high places.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Fearing God

He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake that Moses made, for the Israelites burned incense to it up to that time. He called it Nehushtan.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionHigh PlacesLeaders, PoliticalReformationShrinesThe Bronze SnakeSnakesStonesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksAbandoning IdolsBronze For IdolsMemorabilia

Suppose you say to me: We trust in the Lord our God. Isn’t He the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem: You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem?’

Verse ConceptsShrines

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and reestablished the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done; he also worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsFalse ReligionBowingAltars, PaganBuilding AltarsList Of Kings Of IsraelServing Asherah

“Go up to Hilkiah the high priest so that he may total up the money brought into the Lord’s temple—the money the doorkeepers have collected from the people.

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtCounting MoneyDoorkeepersFinances

Hilkiah the high priest told Shaphan the court secretary, “I have found the book of the law in the Lord’s temple,” and he gave the book to Shaphan, who read it.

Verse ConceptsArchivesScribesReading The ScripturesThe Law Given To Israel

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the doorkeepers to bring out of the Lord’s temple all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and the whole heavenly host. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

Verse ConceptsAstrologyBurning Idolatrous ThingsAshes Of HumiliationServing Asherah

Then he did away with the idolatrous priests the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense at the high places in the cities of Judah and in the areas surrounding Jerusalem. They had burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, moon, constellations, and the whole heavenly host.

Verse ConceptsConstellationsHigh PlacesMoonPriests, Institution In Ot TimesShrinesIncense Offered AmissIdolatrous Worship Of The Moon

Then Josiah brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and he defiled the high places from Geba to Beer-sheba, where the priests had burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city (on the left at the city gate).

Verse ConceptsGatesGovernorsHigh Places

The priests of the high places, however, did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; instead, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

Verse ConceptsThe Altar Of The Lord

The king also defiled the high places that were across from Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians; for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab; and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsFalse GodsHillsAbominations, Idolatry IsPolluting The LandServing Asherah

He even tore down the altar at Bethel and the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin, had made. Then he burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

Verse ConceptsGrindingAltars, Pagan

Josiah also removed all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord. Josiah did the same things to them that he had done at Bethel.

Verse ConceptsSamaritansreuniting

He slaughtered on the altars all the priests of the high places who were there, and he burned human bones on the altars. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsCremationHigh PlacesKilling PriestsBones

One pillar was 27 feet tall and had a bronze capital on top of it. The capital, encircled by a grating and pomegranates of bronze, stood five feet high. The second pillar was the same, with its own grating.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of PillarsPomegranates

David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the Lord at the high place in Gibeon

The tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the desert, and the altar of burnt offering were at the high place in Gibeon,

Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place that was in Gibeon because God’s tent of meeting, which the Lord’s servant Moses had made in the wilderness, was there.

Verse ConceptsAccess To God, In Old TestamentServanthood, In Life Of BelieversTent Of Meeting

So Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place that was in Gibeon in front of the tent of meeting, and he reigned over Israel.

Verse ConceptsShrines

In front of the temple he made two pillars, each 27 feet high. The capital on top of each was 7½ feet high.

Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of Constructions

Then he made the cast metal reservoir, 15 feet from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was 7½ feet high and 45 feet in circumference.

For Solomon had made a bronze platform 7½ feet long, 7½ feet wide, and 4½ feet high and put it in the court. He stood on it, knelt down in front of the entire congregation of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.

Verse ConceptsKneelingPrayer, Practicalities OfBronze Items For The Tabernacle

Jeroboam appointed his own priests for the high places, the goat-demons, and the golden calves he had made.

Verse ConceptsCalvesShrinesGolden CalvesThirty

He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom experienced peace under him.

The high places were not taken away from Israel; nevertheless, Asa was wholehearted his entire life.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodReformationSacrifice, In OtGrandmothers

His mind rejoiced in the Lord’s ways, and he again removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.

Verse ConceptsDesires For HolinessHigh PlacesLoyaltyShrinesRenewed Heart

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Decayed (8 instances)
Elevated (27 instances)
Elevated (27 instances)
Eminent (11 instances)
Exalted (162 instances)
Gigantic (4 instances)
Handsome (22 instances)
Heights (83 instances)
Highest (77 instances)
Lofty (52 instances)
Luxuriously (10 instances)
Richly (24 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מרום 
Marowm 
Usage: 54

עלּי 
`illay (Aramaic) 
the most High , most high , high
Usage: 10

עליון 
'elyown 
Usage: 53

משׂגּב 
Misgab 
Usage: 17

על 
`al 
above , most High , on high
Usage: 6

ὑψηλός 
Hupselos 
Usage: 10

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

ארח 
'orach 
Usage: 59

ארך 
'orek 
length , long , ever , as long as , high
Usage: 95

בּמה 
Bamah 
Usage: 103

בּעלי בּמות 
Ba`aley Bamowth 
lords of the high places
Usage: 0

גּאוה 
Ga`avah 
Usage: 19

גב 
Gab 
Usage: 13

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

גּבהּ 
Gabahh 
Usage: 4

גּבהּ 
Gobahh 
Usage: 17

גּבוהּ גּבהּ 
Gaboahh 
Usage: 37

גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

גּף 
Gaph 
Usage: 4

חץ חוּץ 
Chuwts 
Usage: 164

מסלּה 
M@cillah 
Usage: 27

מסלוּל 
Macluwl 
Usage: 1

מעל 
Ma`al 
Usage: 140

עליון 
`elyown (Aramaic) 
the most High
Usage: 4

צחיח 
Ts@chiyach 
Usage: 5

צמּרת 
Tsammereth 
Usage: 5

צריח 
Ts@riyach 
Usage: 4

קומה 
Qowmah 
Usage: 45

רוּם 
Ruwm 
up , exalt , high , offer , give , heave , extol , lofty , take , tall , higher ,
Usage: 189

רם רוּם 
Ruwm 
Usage: 7

רוממה 
Rowm@mah 
Usage: 0

רמה 
Ramah 
Usage: 4

שׂאת 
S@'eth 
Usage: 14

שׂגב 
Sagab 
Usage: 20

שׁפה 
Shaphah 
Usage: 2

שׁפי 
Sh@phiy 
Usage: 9

תּמרוּר 
Tamruwr 
Usage: 1

ἄνω 
Ano 
above , up , high , brim
Usage: 8

ἀνώτερος 
Anoteros 
Usage: 1

ἀρχιερατικός 
Archieratikos 
of the high priest
Usage: 1

ἀρχιερεύς 
Archiereus 
Usage: 118

ἐπουράνιος 
Epouranios 
Usage: 18

θυμομαχέω 
Thumomacheo 
Usage: 1

ἱερεύς 
Hiereus 
Usage: 22

ὁδός 
Hodos 
Usage: 75

πρωτοκαθεδρία 
Protokathedria 
Usage: 0

πρωτοκλισία 
Protoklisia 
Usage: 1

τυφόω 
Tuphoo 
be proud , be lifted up with pride , highminded
Usage: 3

ὑπέρ 
Huper 
Usage: 138

ὑπερέχω 
Huperecho 
Usage: 5

ὑπερυψόω 
Huperupsoo 
Usage: 1

ὑπερφρονεώ 
Huperphroneo 
Usage: 1

ὑψηλοφρονέω 
Hupselophroneo 
Usage: 2

ὕψιστος 
Hupsistos 
Usage: 12

ὕψωμα 
Hupsoma 
Usage: 2

χαριτόω 
Charitoo 
Usage: 2

χιλίαρχος 
Chiliarchos 
Usage: 22

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