'Higher' in the Bible

[In fact] the waters became fifteen cubits higher [than the highest ground], and the mountains were covered.

“Water [that is, great blessings] will flow from his buckets,And his offspring will live by many waters,And his king will be higher than Agag,And his kingdom shall be exalted.

The stranger who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.

and I said, “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, for our wrongdoings have risen higher than our heads and our guilt has grown to the heavens.

“Look to the heavens and see;And behold the skies which are [much] higher than you.

From the end of the earth I call to You, when my heart is overwhelmed and weak;Lead me to the rock that is higher than I [a rock that is too high to reach without Your help].

If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight [of corruption]; for a higher official watches over another official, and there are higher ones over them [looking out for one another].

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,So are My ways higher than your waysAnd My thoughts higher than your thoughts.

‘Therefore it towered higher than all the trees of the forestAnd its boughs multiplied and its branches grew long;Because there was so much water they spread outward.

The side chambers became wider at each successive level as they encompassed the temple. Because the structure surrounding the temple went higher by stages on all sides of the temple, for that reason the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and thus one went up from the lowest story to the highest one by way of the second story.

Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, there in front of the canal stood a [lone] ram (the Medo-Persian Empire) which had two horns. The two horns were high, but one (Persia) was higher than the other (Media), and the higher one came up last.