242 occurrences in 13 translations

'Top' in the Bible

Make a roof for the ark, and finish the walls to within one cubit from the top. Place the entrance in the side of the ark, and build a lower, a middle, and an upper deck.

Verse ConceptsRooftopDecksThree Parts Of Constructions

When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

Verse ConceptsAltarsAbrahamBindingPutting In OrderBuilding AltarsFirewoodTying Up

and the Lord stood at its top. He said, "I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftI Am Godgrandfathers

And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

Verse ConceptsAnointing, ObjectsAnointing With OilMorning DevotionsMorningOilRising EarlyMonumentsObelisksStones As MonumentsThose Who Rose EarlyAnointing ThingsAnointing Oil

Then Jacob told his relatives, "Go gather some stones." So they picked up stones and stacked them one on top of the other. Then they had a meal together there by the stack of stones.

Verse ConceptsStones As Monuments

she called to the men of her household and said to them, “Look at this, your master has brought a Hebrew [into the household] to mock and insult us; he came to me to lie with me, and I screamed.

Verse ConceptsSexual Union IntendedMisleading Children

When the head chef heard that the interpretation was good, he told Joseph, "I was also in my dream. All of a sudden, there were three baskets with white bread stacked on top of my head.

Verse ConceptsThree Other Things

In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

Verse ConceptsBirds EatingAnimals EatingTop Of Things

At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his money there at the top of the bag.

Verse ConceptsInnsMangersThe Act Of OpeningOpening ContainersFeeding AnimalsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyStaying Temporarily

Take twice as much money with you. Return the money that was returned to you in the top of your bags. Perhaps it was a mistake.

Verse ConceptsHonestyMistakesDouble MoneyIndeterminate Sums Of Money

When we came to the place where we lodged for the night and opened our bags of grain, each one’s money was at the top of his bag! It was the full amount of our money, and we have brought it back with us.

Verse ConceptsInnsThe Act Of OpeningOpening ContainersStaying Temporarily

Then Joseph commanded his steward: “Fill the men’s bags with as much food as they can carry, and put each one’s money at the top of his bag.

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of Money

Put my cup, the silver one, at the top of the youngest one’s bag, along with his grain money.” So he did as Joseph told him.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildIndeterminate Sums Of Money

We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money we found at the top of our bags. How could we steal gold and silver from your master’s house?

Verse ConceptsStealingIndeterminate Sums Of Money

They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambDoorpostsSprinklingBlood On The DoorTwo Parts Of Constructions

Take a branch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go out the door of his house until morning.

Verse ConceptsDoorpostsBasinsHyssopPlantsProperty, HousesSprinklingGoing OutsideBlood On The DoorTwo Parts Of Constructions

For the Lord will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the Lord will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

Verse ConceptsAngels as agents of judgmentPassing OverPassing ThroughThe DestroyerBlood On The DoorTwo Parts Of ConstructionsAngel Of DeathFamily Death

And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.

So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Life EventsAaron, PrivilegesApprentices

And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

Verse ConceptsGoing Up MountainsGod Going Down

And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsSymbolsTheophanyGod Appearing In FireSpectators

You shall overlay the ark with pure gold, overlay it inside and out, and you shall make a gold border (frame) around its top.

Verse ConceptsGoldsmithsInside And OutOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

Set the mercy seat on top of the ark and put the testimony that I will give you into the ark.

Verse ConceptsChestsTestimoniesPropitiatory [Mercy Seat]

You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a border of gold around the top of it.

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

You shall make a rim of a hand width around it; you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearBreadthGold Items For The TabernaclEdge Of Other Things

Then you shall make the lamps [of the lampstand] seven in number [with one lamp at the top of the shaft]. The priests shall set up its seven lamps so that they will light the space in front of it.

Verse ConceptsLampsSheddingSeven Lights

Make a covering for the tent from ram skins dyed red and a covering of manatee skins on top of that.

Verse ConceptsDyeingBadgersRamsTentsCovering The TabernacleAnimal SkinsRed Material

They are to be paired at the bottom, and joined together at the top in a single ring. So it should be for both of them; they will serve as the two corners.

Verse ConceptsCornersDoubled OverBeing Single

It is to have two bands stitched to it at the top of the arms, joining it together.

Verse ConceptsJoining ThingsShoulder PiecesTwo Ornaments

Joining the other ends of the chains to the gold frames and putting them on the front of the ephod, at the top of the arms.

Verse ConceptsJoining Things

And make two more gold rings and put them on the front of the ephod at the top of the arms, at the join, over the worked band:

Verse ConceptsShoulder PiecesGold Items For The Tabernacl

And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.

Verse ConceptsJoining ThingsOther Openingsreinforcement

Take them from their hands and burn them on the altar on top of the burnt offering, as a pleasing aroma before the Lord; it is a fire offering to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPleasing GodRefreshing God

It shall be a cubit long and a cubit wide. It shall be square and it shall be two cubits high. Its horns of one piece with it.

Verse ConceptsSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureOne Material Thing

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.

Verse ConceptsAltar Of IncenseOverlaid With GoldGold Items For The TabernaclEdge Of Other Things

"And take for yourself top quality balsam oils, five hundred [shekels of] flowing myrrh, half [as much]--two hundred and fifty [shekels of] fragrant cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty [shekels of] fragrant reed,

Verse ConceptsMyrrhCinnamonDelicacies

the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on top of it, and all the other furnishings of the tent—

Verse ConceptsCovering The ArkPropitiatory [Mercy Seat]The Tabernacle

And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

Verse ConceptsGoing Up MountainsPreparing For Action

He also made a covering for the tent from ram skins dyed red and a covering of manatee skins on top of it.

Verse ConceptsDyeingRamsCovering The TabernacleAnimal SkinsRed Material

They were paired at the bottom and joined together at the top in a single ring. This is what he did with both of them for the two corners.

Verse ConceptsDoubled Over

And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and out, and made a molding (border) of gold to go all around [the top of it].

Verse ConceptsInside And OutOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a border of gold for it all around [its top].

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

He made a rim for it [just under the top] a hand width wide all around, and a border of gold around its rim.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearGold Items For The TabernaclEdge Of Other Things

On the center shaft of the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, with calyxes and flowers [one at the top];

Verse ConceptsFour Vessels

Then Bezalel made the incense altar of acacia wood; its top was a cubit square and it was two cubits high; the horns were of one piece with it.

Verse ConceptsBreadthAltar Of IncenseSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureOne Material Thing

And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.

Verse ConceptsAltar Of IncenseOverlaid With GoldGold Items For The TabernaclEdge Of Other Things

Then Bezalel made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood; its top was square, five cubits long and five cubits wide, and three cubits high.

Verse ConceptsWoodAcacia WoodSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureSetting Up The Bronze Altar

And they made two bands for joining its edges together at the top of the arms.

Verse ConceptsJoining ThingsShoulder Pieces

and the opening of the robe was at the top in the center, as the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding all around its opening, so that it would not be torn.

Verse ConceptsJoining ThingsOther Openingsreinforcement

Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsCovering The Tabernacle

Moses took the testimony and placed it in the ark, and attached the poles to the ark. He set the mercy seat on top of the ark.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ConstructionArk Of The Covenant, FunctionLaw, Ten CommandmentsTestimoniesCovering The ArkPropitiatory [Mercy Seat]

Aaron’s sons the priests are to arrange the pieces, the head, and the suet on top of the burning wood on the altar.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesPutting In OrderFat Of The Sacrifices

He will cut the animal into pieces with its head and its suet, and the priest will arrange them on top of the burning wood on the altar.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Cut In PiecesPutting In OrderFirewoodFat Of The Sacrifices

He will tear it open by its wings without dividing the bird. Then the priest is to burn it on the altar on top of the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsWingsAnimals Torn To PiecesWings Of BirdsRefreshing God

And the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away;

Verse ConceptsResidueTwo Of Body Parts

And the two kidneys, with the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away;

Verse ConceptsResidueTwo Of Body Parts

And the two kidneys, with the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, let him take away;

Verse ConceptsResidueTwo Of Body Parts

And the two kidneys, with the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away,

Verse ConceptsResidueTwo Of Body Parts

Then the one who brought the offering must remove all its fat (just as the fat of the sheep is removed from the peace offering sacrifice) and the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar on top of the other gifts of the Lord. So the priest will make atonement on his behalf for his sin which he has committed and he will be forgiven.

Verse ConceptsFat Of The SacrificesPriests Atoning

He must bring it to the priest and the priest must scoop out from it a handful as its memorial portion and offer it up in smoke on the altar on top of the other gifts of the Lord -- it is a sin offering.

Verse ConceptsRegulations For The Sin Offering

And the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which is by the top of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away:

Verse ConceptsResidueTwo Of Body Parts

He set the breastplate on him, placed the Urim and Thummim on top of the breastplate,

Verse ConceptsBreastpieceHigh Priest, In OtThe Urim And ThummimUrim And Thummim

Moses then took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar on top of the burnt offering -- they were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was a gift to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsRefreshing God

and he washed the entrails and the legs and offered them up in smoke on top of the burnt offering on the altar.

Verse ConceptsClean Animals

After the article with the mark has been washed, the priest shall again look, and if the mark has not changed its appearance, even though the mark has not spread, it is unclean; you shall burn it in the fire, whether an eating away has produced bareness on the top or on the front of it.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingUnclean Things

From the oil remaining in his palm the priest will put some on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the restitution offering.

Verse ConceptsThumbsToesAnointed By PeopleOther Right Parts

The LORD told Moses, "Remind your brother Aaron that at no time is he to enter the sacred place from the room that contains the curtain into the presence of the Mercy Seat on top of the ark. Otherwise, he'll die, because I will appear in a cloud at the Mercy Seat.

Verse ConceptsCurtainsArk Of The Covenant, DescriptionArk Of The Covenant, FunctionAppearances Of God In OtAtonement, in OTDay Of AtonementDivine ManifestationsClouds, God's PresenceMost Holy PlaceTheophanyArk Of The Covenant, PurposeMercy SeatDesecrationGod's Shekinah GloryCovering The ArkDeath Due To God's PresenceGod AppearingThe Right TimePropitiatory [Mercy Seat]

I'll destroy your high places and cut down your sun pillars. Then I'll cast your dead bodies on top of the bodies of your idols. I'll loathe you.

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

They are to place over this a covering made of manatee skin, spread a solid blue cloth on top, and insert its poles.

Verse ConceptsPolesAnimal SkinsBlue Cloth

"They are to spread a blue cloth over the table of the Presence and on top of it the dishes, pans, bowls, pitchers for drink offerings, and the bread of presence are to be on it continually.

Verse ConceptsTablesBowlsBlue ClothTemple Utensils In UseHallowed

They are to transport the tabernacle curtains, the tent of meeting with its covering and the covering made of manatee skin on top of it, the screen for the entrance to the tent of meeting,

Verse ConceptsAnimal SkinsSwinging

Just then, a wind burst forth from the LORD, who brought quails from the sea and spread them all around the camp, about a day's journey in each direction, completely encircling the camp about two cubits deep on top of the ground!

Verse ConceptsWeather, God's Sovereignty OverWeights And Measures, DistancesWindBirds, Types Of BirdsGod Dispensing WindDimensions Of Other Things

And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the LORD hath promised: for we have sinned.

Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentanceRising EarlyThose Who Rose Early

But they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain, even though the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD and Moses didn't leave the camp.

Verse ConceptsThe Ark Moved AroundMotionlessnessStaying Put

And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfPeople Stripping PeoplePriests Garments

And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh toward Jeshimon.

For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessSeparation From Evil PeopleA Solitary People

And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsSeven ThingsSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.

Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

Verse ConceptseastWestNorth, South, East And WestGoing Up Mountains

And this is to be the priests' right: those who make an offering of a sheep or an ox are to give to the priest the top part of the leg and the two sides of the head and the stomach.

Verse ConceptsSheepCheeksFood For Priests Defined

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you will always end up at the top and not at the bottom, if you obey his commandments which I am urging you today to be careful to do.

Verse ConceptsTailsHead As ChiefKeep The Commandments!Never Giving Up

The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

Verse ConceptsLegsKneesNo Healing

And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

Verse ConceptsHeadsPrinces

And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad! As a lion doth he dwell, and teareth the arm, even the top of the head.

Verse ConceptsEnlargementLike Creatures

And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

Then {they placed} on top of him a great pile of stones [that remains] to this day. And Yahweh {turned from his burning anger}, and thus the name of that place to this day is called the valley of Achor.

Verse ConceptsCairnsGod Will No More Be AngryPlaces To This Day

And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:

Verse ConceptsValleys

And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:

The border turned west from Baalah to Mount Seir, continuing to the top of Mount Jearim on the north (also known as Chesalon), and then proceeded to Beth-shemesh, continuing through Timnah.

And build an altar unto the LORD thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.

Verse ConceptsHeightWoodAltars, Built ByAltars To The LordBuilding AltarsFirewood

He went to his father’s house in Ophrah and killed his 70 brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, on top of a large stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsThe Youngest ChildBeing Killed By A RockHiding From PeopleSole SurvivorsSeventiesKilling BrothersHalf brothersanniversary

And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!Will God Pay Attention?

and now you have attacked my father’s house today, killed his 70 sons on top of a large stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his slave, king over the lords of Shechem ‘because he is your brother’—

Verse ConceptsConcubinesIngratitudeBeing Killed By A RockMaking KingsSeventiesKilling Brothers

And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.

Verse ConceptsAmbushRobbing PeopleTelling Of Happenings

And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.

Verse ConceptsShadowsThings Like PeopleLike Men

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

Verse ConceptsRooftopIsrael FleeingWomen's Roles

And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

Verse ConceptsCavesThighs

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּג 
Gag 
roof , housetop , top , ... house
Usage: 30

גּרם 
Gerem 
Usage: 5

סעיף 
Ca`iyph 
Usage: 6

פּטדה 
Pitdah 
Usage: 4

צחיח 
Ts@chiyach 
Usage: 5

צמּרת 
Tsammereth 
Usage: 5

קדקד 
Qodqod 
crown of the head , top of the head , crown , pate , scalp
Usage: 11

ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

תּפל 
Tophel 
Usage: 1

תּפת 
Topheth 
Usage: 9

תּפתּה 
Tophteh 
Usage: 1

ἄκρον 
Akron 
Usage: 1

ἄνωθεν 
Anothen 
from above , top , again , from the first , from the beginning , not tr
Usage: 10

δῶμα 
Doma 
Usage: 2

τοπάζιον 
Topazion 
Usage: 1

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