high
el.yon describes what is upper or highest in location, and what is set above others in rank.
The attested use most often marks an upper or highest physical position: gates, pools, chambers, a basket, and named places are distinguished by their location. A smaller group of verses applies the adjective to elevation above others, whether Israel above nations or the LORD above all the earth.
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Upper or highest in physical location · dominant
The masculine singular form identifies an upper gate in 2 Chronicles 27:3 and an upper outlet in 2 Chronicles 32:30; the APB renders those clauses with “upper.” Feminine forms occur with the upper pool in Isaiah 7:3 and Isaiah 36:2 and with upper chambers in Ezekiel 42:5, while Genesis 40:17 describes the basket at the highest position as “the uppermost basket.”
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Raised above others · occasional
In Deuteronomy 26:19 and Deuteronomy 28:1, the adjective occurs in the promise that Israel will be set above all nations; the APB renders the relation as “high above.” In Psalm 97:9, the clause addresses the LORD as above all the earth and above all gods, rendered “most high” and “exalted far above.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the spatial passages, the APB commonly uses “upper,” and Genesis 40:17 has “uppermost.” In elevation clauses it uses “high above” and “most high”; These renderings indicate the verse-level presentation rather than a fixed equivalent in every occurrence.