high
Hupselos describes elevated mountains and a wall, and can mark what is exalted or set above others.
The attested uses chiefly describe visibly elevated terrain and a wall; they also apply to what is exalted among people, to self-directed “high things,” and to one described as above the heavens. Two further clauses use the adjective in descriptions of an uplifted arm and the Majesty “on high.”
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Elevated terrain or structure · dominant
The accusative neuter forms modify a mountain in Mark 9:2, Matthew 17:1, Matthew 4:8, and Revelation 21:10; the APB renders these clauses with “high mountain” or “very high mountain.” In Revelation 21:12, the same form occurs with a wall, which the APB calls a “great, high wall.”
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Exalted or elevated in status or outlook · common
In Luke 16:15, the nominative neuter form identifies what is “exalted among men” in the APB clause. Romans 11:20 and Romans 12:16 use the accusative plural neuter form in warnings against being “high-minded” and “thinking the high things,” while Hebrews 7:26 uses the comparative form in the description “exalted above the heavens.”
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Elevated language in divine description · occasional
Acts 13:17 places the genitive singular masculine form in the clause rendered “with an uplifted arm.” Hebrews 1:3 has the dative plural masculine form in the phrase rendered “the Majesty on high”; the adjective's precise English contribution is less isolated in this translation.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “high” for mountains and a wall, while other clauses use “exalted,” “high-minded,” “high things,” “uplifted,” and “on high.” These renderings show the verse-level presentation rather than a fixed equivalent.