Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H4605

מַ֫עַל

ma.al · “above”

Used 140 times across 23 books

Definition

subst
1) higher part, upper part
adv
1a) above
prep
1b) on the top of, above, on higher ground than
with locative
1c) upwards, higher, above

Where it appears

Genesis

3

Exodus

13

Leviticus

2

Numbers

37

Deuteronomy

5

Joshua

3

Judges

2

1 Samuel

4

1 Kings

8

2 Kings

2

1 Chronicles

8

2 Chronicles

11

Ezra

2

Job

4

Psalms

2

Proverbs

2

Ecclesiastes

1

Isaiah

6

Jeremiah

5

Ezekiel

15

Daniel

2

Amos

1

Haggai

2

In the text

Genesis 6:16A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.Genesis 7:20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.Genesis 22:9And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.Exodus 20:4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:Exodus 25:20And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.Exodus 25:21And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.Exodus 26:14And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.Exodus 28:27And two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.Exodus 30:14Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the Lord.Exodus 36:19And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.

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