'High' in the Bible

After him Baruch son of Zabbai zealously repaired a second section of a wall from the angle up to the doorway of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

One from the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, [who was] the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonote [was there]. I chased him away from me.

And Zeresh his wife and all of his friends said to him, "Let them make a gallows fifty cubits high, and in the morning tell the king, "Let them hang Mordecai on it; then go with the king to the banquet happily." The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

And Habrona, one of the eunuchs in the presence of the king, said, "Look, the same gallows that Haman had prepared for Mordecai who spoke good [for the sake] of the king stands at Haman's house, fifty cubits high." And the king said, "Hang him on it."

or with high officials {who have gold}, who fill up their houses [with] silver.

to set [the] lowly on high, and [those] mourning are lifted to safety.

Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he himself judges high ones?

"Domination and dread [are] with him who makes peace in his high heavens.

And what [is] the portion of God from above or the heritage of Shaddai from on high?

Or does [the] eagle fly high at your command and construct its nest high?

And let [the] assembly of peoples surround you, and over it return on high.

I will thank Yahweh according to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of Yahweh, [the] Most High.

I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing [the praise of] your name, O Most High.

And Yahweh thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice [with] hail and coals of fire.

He reached from on high; he seized me. He drew me from many waters.

he made my feet like the deer's, and on my high places he makes me stand.

Because the king trusts Yahweh, and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.

Because he will hide me in his shelter in [the] day of trouble. He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent. He will set me high upon a rock.

And now my head will be high over my enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

[There is] a river whose streams gladden the city of God, the holiest of the dwellings of the Most High.

Yahweh of hosts [is] with us; our [high] stronghold [is] the God of Jacob. Selah

Yahweh of Hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our [high] stronghold.

For Yahweh Most High [is] awesome, a great king over all the earth.

God [is] in her citadels; he is known as a [high] stronghold.

both low and high, rich and poor together.

Offer to God a thank offering and pay your vows to [the] Most High.

I will call to God Most High, to God who accomplishes [things] concerning me.

Because your loyal love [is] high to [the] heavens, and your faithfulness to [the] clouds.

O my strength, I will watch for you, because [you], O God, [are] my (high) stronghold.

But as for me, I will sing [of] your strength, and I will hail your loyal love in the morning, because you have been my [high] stronghold and a refuge in my {time} of trouble.

O my strength, to you I will give praise, because God [is] my [high] stronghold, my God of loyal love.

Only he [is] my rock and my salvation, my [high] stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken.

They only plan to thrust [him] down from his high position; they are pleased [with] deception. With their mouths they bless, but {inwardly} they curse. Selah

Only he [is] my rock and my salvation, my [high] stronghold; I shall not be shaken.

Only a vapor [are] men of low degree, a deception [are] men of high degree. {Weighed} in a balance, together they [are lighter] than a vapor.

You have ascended on high; you have led away captives. You have received gifts [from] among humankind, and even [from the] rebellious, so that Yah God may dwell [there].

They mock and speak maliciously of oppression; they speak [as though] from on high.

And they say, "How does God know?" and, "Does the Most High have knowledge?"

Do not lift up high your horn. Do [not] speak with {arrogant pride}.'"

So I said, "This pierces me-- the right [hand] of the Most High [has] changed."

But they sinned still further against him by rebelling [against the] Most High in the desert.

And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and God Most High their redeemer.

But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep his statutes.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and made him jealous with their images.

I have said, "You [are] gods, and sons of the Most High, all of you.

that they may know that you, [whose] name [is] Yahweh, you alone, [are the] Most High over the whole earth.

But with respect to Zion it shall be said, "{Each one} was born in her," for the Most High himself will establish her.

You have a mighty arm; Your hand is strong; your right hand reaches high.

[One who] lives in the secret place of the Most High will lodge in the shadow of Shaddai.

For you, O Yahweh, [are] my refuge. You have made the Most High your dwelling place.

[It is] good to give thanks to Yahweh, and to sing praise concerning your name, O Most High;

But you [are] on high forever, O Yahweh.

[Mightier] than the rumblings of many waters, [mightier] than [the] mighty breakers of [the] sea, Yahweh on high [is] mighty.

But Yahweh has become my [high] stronghold, and my God [has become] my rock of refuge.

For you, O Yahweh, [are] most high over all the earth. You are highly exalted above all gods.

For as [the] heavens are high above the earth, [so] his loyal love prevails over those who fear him.

The high mountains [are] for the wild goats; [the] cliffs [are] a refuge for the rock badgers.

because they rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High,

[Those who] went down to the sea into ships, doing business on [the] {high seas},

{He gives lavishly} to the needy; his righteousness endures forever. His horn rises high in honor.

Yahweh [is] high above all nations; his glory [is] above the heavens.

Who [is] like Yahweh our God, who [is] enthroned on high,

Though Yahweh [is] high, yet he sees [the] lowly, but [the] proud he perceives at a distance.

[Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is set high; I cannot [prevail] against it.

Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from [the] hand of foreigners,

And he has raised high a horn for his people, praise for all his faithful-- for the children of Israel, a people close to him. Praise Yah.

She has sent her servant girls, she calls upon the wings of the high places of town,

She sits at the door of her house, upon a throne [at the] high places of town,

He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his high thresholds seeks destruction.

The wealth of the rich [is] {his strong city}, and like a wall, it is high in his imagination.

Wisdom [is too] high for fools; at the gate he will not open his mouth.

The fool is set in many high places, but the rich sit in lowly places.

and against all the high mountains, and against all the lofty hills,

and against every kind of high tower, and against every kind of fortified wall,

In the year of the death of Uzziah the king, I saw the Lord sitting on a high and raised throne, and the hem of his robe [was] filling the temple.

"Ask for a sign for yourself from Yahweh God; make [it] deep [as] Sheol or make [it] high as above."

I will ascend to [the] high places of [the] clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.'

It has gone up [to] the house, and Dibon [to] the high places for weeping over Nebo, and Moab wails over Medeba. {Every head is bald}, every beard [is] shaved.

And this shall happen: when Moab appears, when it is weary upon the high place and it comes to its sanctuary to pray, it will not prevail.

And he will throw down the fortification of the high point of your walls; he will bring [it] low; he will {send it} to the ground, to [the] dust.

Yahweh, [though] your hand reaches high, they do not see [it]. Let them see, and let them be ashamed of [the] zeal of people. Indeed, let the fire of your enemies consume them.

therefore this iniquity shall come for you like a breach about to fall, bulging out on a high wall {that breaks} suddenly, [in] an instant.

And there will be streams on every high mountain and elevated hill, watercourses of water, on a day of great slaughter, when towers fall.

Until a spirit is poured out on us from on high, and [the] wilderness becomes fruitful field, and [the] fruitful field is reckoned as the forest.

Yahweh [is] exalted, for [he] dwells [on] high; he filled Zion [with] justice and righteousness,

Highways are deserted; [the] traveler [on the] road ceases. One breaks a treaty, he rejects [the] cities, he does not hold man in high regard.

And if you say to me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God,' [was it] not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed? And he said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall bow down in the {presence} of this altar.'"

{Get yourself} up to a high mountain, Zion, bringer of good news! Lift up your voice with strength, Jerusalem, bringer of good news! Lift [it] up; you must not fear! Say to the cities of Judah, "Here [is] your God!"

Lift your eyes up [on] high, and see! Who created these? The one who brings out their host by number. He calls all them by name. Because [he is] great of power and mighty of power, no man is missing.

Look, my servant shall achieve success; he shall be exalted, and he shall be lifted up, and he shall be very high.

[He was] despised and rejected [by] men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces}, [he was] despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.

You have set your bed upon a high and lofty mountain; indeed, you went up there to slaughter sacrifice.

For thus says [the] high and lofty one who resides forever, and [whose] name [is] holy: "I reside [in] a high and holy place, and with [the] {contrite} and humble of spirit, to revive [the] spirit of [the] humble, and to revive [the] heart of [the] {contrite}.

"For from long ago you have broken your yoke, you tore to pieces your bonds. And you said, 'I will not serve!' But on every high hill and under every leafy tree you [were] lying down [as] a prostitute.

Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah, the king, "Have you seen what apostate Israel has done? She has gone on every high hill and under every leafy tree and she has prostituted [herself] there.

And they built the high place of Topheth, which [is] in [the] Valley of Ben Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I have not commanded, and it did not come into my mind.

As the remembering of their children, [so is the remembering of] their altars and their poles of Asherah worship beside [the] leafy trees on [the] high hills.

my mountain in the open country, I will give your wealth, all your treasures, for spoil, your high places, because of [your] sin, throughout all your territories.

and they have built the high places of Baal, to burn their children in the fire, burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, and I ordered not, and it did not come to my {mind}.

And you yourself shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them: 'Yahweh will roar from [on] high, and from {his holy dwelling place} he will give his voice. He will roar mightily against his settlement, a jubilant shout like those who tread [grapes], he will answer against all the inhabitants of the earth.