418 occurrences

'High' in the Bible

screaming in a loud voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you in the name of God never to torment me!"

Six days later, Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain to be alone with him. His appearance was changed in front of them,

Once again, Jesus took the Twelve aside and began to tell them what was going to happen to him. "Pay attention! We're going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and the scribes, and they'll condemn him to death. Then they'll hand him over to the unbelievers,

When the high priests and elders heard this, they began to look for a way to kill him, because they were afraid of him, since the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.

Then they went into Jerusalem again. While Jesus was walking in the Temple, the high priests, the scribes, and the elders came to him

Now it was two days before the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus secretly and to have him put to death,

Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the high priests to betray Jesus to them.

Just then, while Jesus was still speaking, Judas, one of the Twelve, arrived. A crowd armed with swords and clubs was with him. They were from the high priests, the scribes, and the elders.

But one of those standing there drew his sword and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his ear.

Then they took Jesus to the high priest. All the high priests, elders, and scribes had gathered together.

Peter followed Jesus at a distance as far as the high priest's courtyard. He was sitting with the servants and warming himself at the fire.

Meanwhile, the high priests and the whole Council were looking for some testimony against Jesus in order to have him put to death, but they couldn't find any.

Then the high priest stood up before them and asked Jesus, "Don't you have any answer to what these men are testifying against you?"

While Peter was down in the courtyard, one of the high priest's servant girls came by.

As soon as it was morning, the high priests convened a meeting with the elders and scribes and the whole Council. They bound Jesus with chains, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

The high priests kept accusing him of many things.

But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release Barabbas for them instead.

In the same way, the high priests, along with the scribes, were also making fun of him among themselves. They kept saying, "He saved others, but can't save himself!

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High, because you will go ahead of the Lord to prepare his way

and Annas and Caiaphas high priests, a message from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, in the wilderness.

Then Jesus got up to leave the synagogue and went into Simon's house. Now Simon's mother-in-law was sick with a high fever, so they asked Jesus about her.

When he saw Jesus, he screamed, fell down in front of him, and cried out in a loud voice, "What do you want from me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!"

Then he began teaching in the Temple every day. The high priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people kept looking for a way to kill him,

One day, while Jesus was teaching the people in the Temple and telling them the good news, the high priests and the scribes came with the elders

So the high priests and the scribes were looking for a way to put him to death, because they were afraid of the crowd.

So he went off and discussed with the high priests and the Temple police how he could betray Jesus to them.

Then one of them struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear.

Then Jesus told the high priests, the Temple police, and the elders, who had come for him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs as if I were a bandit?

Then they arrested him, led him away, and brought him to the high priest's house. But Peter was following at a distance.

As soon as day came, the elders of the people, the high priests, and the scribes assembled and brought him before their Council.

Then Pilate told the high priests and crowds, "I do not find anything chargeable in this man."

Meanwhile, the high priests and the scribes stood nearby and continued to accuse him vehemently.

Then Pilate called the high priests, the other leaders, and the people together

They answered him, "The events involving Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet, mighty in what he said and did before God and all the people, and how our high priests and leaders handed him over to be condemned to death and had him crucified.

The Pharisees heard the crowd debating these things about him, so the high priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest Jesus.

Then the officers returned to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

So the high priests and the Pharisees assembled the Council and said, "What are we going to do? This man is performing many signs.

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, "You don't know anything!

Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.

So Judas took a detachment of soldiers and some officers from the high priests and the Pharisees and went there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.

First they brought him to Annas, because he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, the high priest that year.

Simon Peter and another disciple were following Jesus. Since the other disciple was known to the high priest, he accompanied Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.

Peter, however, stood outside the gate. So this other disciple who was known to the high priest went out and spoke to the gatekeeper and brought Peter inside.

Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his own teaching.

When he said this, one of the officers standing nearby slapped Jesus on the face and demanded, "Is that any way to answer the high priest?"

Then Annas sent him, with his hands tied, to Caiaphas the high priest.

Then one of the high priest's servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "I saw you in the garden with Jesus, didn't I?"

Pilate replied, "I am not a Jew, am I? It is your own nation and high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

When the high priests and the officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate told them, "You take him and crucify him. I find no basis for a charge against him."

The high priests responded, "We have no king but Caesar!" Then Pilate handed him over to be crucified, and they took Jesus away.

Then the Jewish high priests told Pilate, "Don't write, "The King of the Jews,' but that this fellow said, "I am the King of the Jews.'"

with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and the rest of the high priest's family.

After they were released, Peter and John went to their fellow believers and told them everything the high priests and the elders had said.

None of the others dared join them, although the rest of the people continued to hold them in high regard.

After the apostles heard this, they went into the Temple at daybreak and began to teach. The high priest and those who were with him arrived, called the Council and all the elders of Israel together, and sent word to the prison to have the men brought in.

When the commander of the Temple guards and the high priests heard these words, they were utterly at a loss as to what could have happened to them.

When they brought them back, they made them stand before the Council, and the high priest began to question them.

They were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought at a high price from Hamor's descendants in Shechem.

However, the Most High does not live in buildings made by human hands. As the prophet says,

Meanwhile, still spewing death threats against the Lord's disciples, Saul went to the high priest.

He is here with authority from the high priests to put in chains all who call on your name."

Everyone who heard him was astonished and said, "This is the man who harassed those who were calling on Jesus' name in Jerusalem, isn't it? Didn't he come here to bring them in chains to the high priests?"

But the Jewish leaders stirred up devout women of high social standing and the officials in the city, started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their territory.

Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this.

When this became known to everyone living in Ephesus, Jews and Greeks alike, they all became terrified, and the name of the Lord Jesus began to be held in high honor.

as the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me. I also received letters from them to the brothers in Damascus, and I was going there to tie up those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

The next day, since the tribune wanted to find out exactly what Paul was being accused of by the Jews, he released him and ordered the high priests and the entire Council to meet. Then he brought Paul down and had him stand before them.

Then the high priest Ananias ordered the men standing near him to strike him on the mouth.

The men standing near him asked, "Do you mean to insult God's high priest?"

Paul answered, "I didn't realize, brothers, that he is the high priest. After all, it is written, "You must not speak evil about a ruler of your people.'"

They went to the high priests and elders and said, "We have taken a solemn oath not to taste any food before we have killed Paul.

Five days later, the high priest Ananias arrived with certain elders and Tertullus, an attorney, and they summarized their case against Paul before the governor.

The high priests and Jewish leaders informed him of their charges against Paul, urging

When I went to Jerusalem, the high priests and the Jewish elders informed me about him and asked me to condemn him.

That is what I did in Jerusalem. I received authority from the high priests and locked many of the saints in prison. And when I cast my vote against them, they were put to death.

"That is how I happened to be traveling to Damascus with authority based on a commission from the high priests.

For every high priest selected from among men is appointed to officiate on their behalf in matters relating to God, that is, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

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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

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

ὑψηλός 
Hupselos 
Usage: 10

ὑψηλοφρονέω 
Hupselophroneo 
Usage: 2

ὕψιστος 
Hupsistos 
Usage: 12

ὕψωμα 
Hupsoma 
Usage: 2

χαριτόω 
Charitoo 
Usage: 2

χιλίαρχος 
Chiliarchos 
Usage: 22

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